Matt Drudge Quotes - Page 2

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

I'm a free-thinker. I'm an American. I'm very concerned with what's happening. So, I just give it my all. I've learned how to take care of myself and detach from outcomes because, otherwise, you can't survive.

The reality of the situation is life on Earth has not changed. We need facts, we need events, we need specifics on things.

Everybody is so hungry for referrals, for 'likes.' I don't need to be liked. I don't need to be liked at all. I don't care if there's a button right there at the top of Drudge saying 'like' or 'dislike,' 'thumbs up,' 'thumbs down,' it doesn't mean anything.

I need no traffic from Google. I don't care if I get one traffic referral from Google, or Bing, or Yahoo, or any of these others. It's always been that way.

You've gotta be dynamic in media. That's the only thing that's gonna work.

I have a very clear perception what the Internet is in my mind. I'm free. I'm not defined by what they say is the Internet is. Meaning Goldman Sachs, meaning who they invest in for the latest start-up, meaning the latest Buzzfeed, or Salon, or Gawker. Well, Gawker's more independent. But, there's a lot of corporate makeover of the Internet that I have not adapted to, simply put. I'm friends with some of them. When I go to New York I make the 6th Avenue rounds, but I am not a part of that system.

Make your own place. Make your own. The engine that allows you to make your own dynamic, your own universe. Why are you gravitating towards somebody else's universe?

I realize that just my personality is, that I've gotta stay focused. I can't be too distracted.

I challenge Hillary Clinton; take away your Secret Service. Take it away now! Take away your Secret Service! Dismiss them! Have no security around you. Have no guns around you, Hillary. I dare you! I dare you! Obama, same thing. Drop your guns, Obama! Take your Secret Service away, Obama. Take it all away! Leave the White House unguarded, Obama. Let everybody know there's no guns on the White House grounds, Obama. You know what would happen in 30 seconds? Both of those people would no longer be on planet Earth.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.