Newsday Quotes

(1999, in an interview in "Newsday") I`m going to be the first black President of the United States. If [Ronald Reagan can do it, I know I can.

(Finn, in an interview with Newsday last winter, defended his contracts, saying he often paid for things himself. He said his program is proven and operates in 16 other school districts nationwide.) The notion that I was making too much money ... well, you don`t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate and I`m nobody`s dummy, ... I gave back to Hempstead a lot more than I got.

(The house is, in fact, something of a shrine to the passion that has consumed Corrigan`s life, from her literature-saturated childhood in Sunnyside through her current career as a teacher and critic (in addition to her NPR gig, she pens a column on mysteries for The Washington Post and reviews for other publications, including Newsday). As she confesses in the just-published) Leave Me Alone, I`m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books ... When I`m in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I`d rather be reading a book.