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“Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.”

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I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

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We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe…

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What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.

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Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

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Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons…

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My interest is in power. How power works.

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Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to…

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When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

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