I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, Im thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely. – David Talbot
I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as Ive told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people. – David Talbot
I came at age in the 60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time – the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedys campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. – David Talbot
I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the Today programme and item four on the news was: The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership. I lay there thinking thats interesting, then I realised it was me. – George Osborne