Reporters Quotes · Page 4

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr

[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

— David Carr

It is fair to say there is a lot of pressure placed on female reporters.

— Kristen Welker

Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better.

— Beth Macy

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

— Anonymous

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

— Edward Bennett Williams

The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted…

— Max von Sydow

One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm…

— Bill Keller

Joan Collins told a reporter that she hasn't had plastic surgery; come on... she's had more tucks than a motel bedsheet!

— Joan Rivers

[Donald Trump] was a magnificent witness. The reporter, when asking me about his testimony, said, "Sessions gushed about his testimony." But it…

— Jeff Sessions

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

— Bill Eppridge

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really…

— James Taylor

Essentially, there is no media, folks. There just isn't any media in the sense that there are reporters out there uncovering things…

— Rush Limbaugh

Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should…

— John Ensign

The more boring a newspaper is, the more it is respected. The most respected newspaper in the United States is The New…

— Dave Barry

The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story,…

— Bob Greene

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters,…

— Ron Suskind

I played a lesbian reporter in 1964, who was incarcerated, and ended the series as a 75-year-old woman. And then, I was…

— Sarah Paulson

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places…

— William Safire

The thing that I love about The Flash and about superhero shows, in general, is that it's not about having superpowers that…

— Candice Patton

[Jack Nash from The Andromeda Strain] was not in the original film, but he was kind of a Geraldo Rivera almost kind…

— Eric McCormack

As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers…

— Juan Williams

Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance…

— Ari Shapiro

I've reported in countries where leaders not only complain about a critical press, but also try to shut it down, throwing reporters…

— Jonathan Karl

I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on,…

— Nat Hentoff

Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free…

— Michael Parenti

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have…

— Walter Cronkite

Hello...Although you (reporters) are busy thank you for coming to this place. Today, the reason that I called you...I wanted to talk…

— Youngjae

Sidney Blumenthal is very close friend of Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. And her campaign manager, Patti Doyle, went to - during the campaign,…

— Donald Trump

I think if the content is good and the content is interesting, the at home viewer will watch it for as long…

— Robin Leach

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

— Jim Walton

Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players.

— Moses Malone

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

— Anna Quindlen

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

— Paul Simon

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

— Andy Rooney

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

— Hunter S. Thompson

When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it.

— Leon Russell

I am always happy to work with reporters who uphold journalistic integrity.

— Anna Paulina Luna