Journalist Quotes - Page 2

This is the whole ball game, and this is what I really want to say. I'm proud that journalists are standing up, individually, speaking up in ways that we rarely see. They're not anti-Trump. They're pro-democracy.

You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.

The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

Bad manners make a journalist.

Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.

To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything else first.

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.