I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.

I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians.

— Jim Lynch

I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter.

— David Grann

I'm not a daily reporter. I'm not a newspaper reporter, I'm not a political reporter.

— Michael Wolff

For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said…

— Jack Germond

“People's capacity for turning dogmatic stupidity into political movements never ceased to amaze me. We've knocked off 99.9% of the human race and somehow…

— Dennis E. Taylor

I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“I suppose people who graduate from very selective and expensive colleges, and receive immense reinforcement from colleagues who preceded them there, develop an inflated…

— James Kunstler

Some folks ask me what the transition was like from NASCAR reporter to political reporter. It's easy. In one, you try to explain to…

— Mary Katharine Ham

But when my mother ran for City Council, that was the moment when I knew I wanted to be a political reporter. Some reporters…

— Kristen Welker

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

I didn't realize what fun it was [ been a reporter].

— P. J. O'Rourke

If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic…

— P. J. O'Rourke

If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

— P. J. O'Rourke