Journalist Quotes

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

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!

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

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

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

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

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

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

I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure.

Bad manners make a journalist.

Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.

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

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

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.

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.

Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized.

Most of the things I read from journalists are, you know, a little bit simplified and easy.

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

Only two journalists followed the team around.

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?

It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.

Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

If you want to take off your journalist outfit and declare yourself a pundit and go argue against Donald Trump, go for it. But you can't wear both hats.

It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.