Reporters Quotes

Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him.

Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.

Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times.

[Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

After all, the reporters are the ones who get to ask the questions.

Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, 'The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

Because when you watch US television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they wanna write something that you wanna hear but not necessarily millions of people wanna hear or have to hear.

Reporters at the New York Times, they're not journalists, they're corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and for Hillary Clinton.

All I can ask for is honest reporters.

The e-mails show the reporters collaborate and conspire directly with the [Hillary] Clinton campaign on helping her win the election all over.

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.

Only a few reporters...discerned that Anderson really combined Carter's ineptness with Reagan's simplicities.

As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

Jay Carney told the reporters at his morning briefing that he hoped they would watch the new movie about Obama's first term 'many times.' They might. Look how well 'Titanic' did at the box office.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them.

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary, concealed knowledge of the issues, concealed tolerance.

Michele Bachmann told reporters that she will lead the nation in prayer if she is elected president. You know if she is elected president, we all better be praying. She doesn't have to lead us.

Most reporters are sheep in wolves' clothing.

I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.

Republican candidate Ben Carson told reporters he thinks American prisons might be too comfortable. As opposed to Mexican prisons that have personal showers with $5 million escape tunnels.

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

Donald Trump is the first president in more than 40 years not to make his tax returns public. The president says only reporters care about the issue.

I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial.

As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.

The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?"

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.