Journalist Quotes

Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist.

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

I like my job and I want to do well at it but I think there's much more integrity to being a journalist maybe than being an actor.

I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting.

Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

I think because I came from a very strong news background and people were aware of me from that side of things, they appreciated me as a journalist. Maybe it was less difficult for me.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

I got here when I was 12, I found out I was undocumented when I was 16, I became a journalist when I was 17, and all I ever did was write other stories to run away from myself.

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.

When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist.

I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world.

You had journalist saying during the campaign that Donald Trump compels them to suspend all objective standards of journalism.

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.

On Twitter, Donald Trump has called me a "poor journalist, stupid, a very dumb guy, the dumbest political commentator on television, and the dumbest man on TV."

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

I don't trust lawyers and journalists.

A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism, and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.

That's why we have journalists, for stats.

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world youre in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree.

I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

Everyone with an iPhone is a journalist in their own way now, especially because we live in a tabloid culture.

When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.

I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.