"We knew it would be considered provocative to quote from it, but did not think it was illegal," Mr. Kunzru wrote on his Web site.
Many conservative writers have attempted to link Obama to what they consider to be, to quote Stanley Kurtz, "the largest radical group on America" that faced a recent embezzlement scandal and various questions about the veracity of its voter registration campaigns over the years.
Quotes that were considered to have richer textual data than others were considered for use in reporting the findings.
All that was Canadian was pushed aside, making room for fad after fad, until we arrive at my generation (I'm in my early 30's), where eating traditional foods is considered passé or to quote a professor of mine, "re-inforcing old values that have no currency in a modern multicultural Canada".
The new documents and interviews further demonstrate that the White House brought an unprecedented level of partisan pressure to bear in the decision to fire certain United States Attorneys who were not considered "loyal Bushies," to quote one Justice Department official.
One might have reason to doubt that the conversation took place quite as described, but the passage is among those which are considered too good not to quote, because it supports the "Pop changed everything" theory of Warhol's art.
People were frightened of the former general's power and of the violence he represented, as well as of the power of other figures potentially implicated in the case; attempting to prosecute the crime's chain of command was considered too politically controversial and, to quote a phrase one often heard, "potentially destabilizing".
Mr. Huber, who was considered outspoken, was quoted most recently during an inquiry into whether a company owned by Marc Rich, the fugitive billionaire, was required to abide by the money-laundering law that took effect last year.
Consider this very quote, towards the end of his trial.
Steiner had considered a quote from the 1972 film The Godfather: "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse".
