Journalist Quotes · Page 18

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming…

— David Remnick

Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to…

— Voltaire

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

— David Brooks

As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment.

— Susanna Reid

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football. (on Bulgarian journalists)

— Ivan Slavkov

“now I would almost arrest Glenn Greenwald, who’s the journalist who seems to want to help him get to Ecuador.”

— Glenn Greenwald

“When it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers…

— Steven Brill

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not…

— Wolf Blitzer

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in…

— Jesse James Garrett

But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different…

— Annia Ciezadlo

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of…

— Alexandra Kerry

There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and…

— John Lennon

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to…

— Jaron Lanier

Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon,…

— Annia Ciezadlo

There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright…

— Joseph Pulitzer

I will say that the difference was that when you're an Army journalist, as opposed to a civilian correspondent covering the military,…

— Clarence Page

When I was leaving NBC News to go to CNN, people would say, 'What?! Why would you possibly leave the 'Today Show'…

— Soledad O'Brien

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no…

— Gary Ackerman

Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion…

— William A. Niskanen

I have a general feeling that writers and artists who are in this peculiar situation, of being a persecuted artist, all anyone…

— Salman Rushdie

President Bush, whose scorn for journalists is balanced by a soft spot in his heart for the conglomerates they work for, threatens…

— Bill Moyers

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

— Sade Adu

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

— Amy Goodman

As a journalist, I know what it is like to incur the self-righteous wrath of people who denounce you for things you…

— Anne Applebaum

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

— Carol Burnett

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

— Jay Rayner

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first…

— Dave Barry

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

— Nora Ephron

Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not…

— Gretchen Carlson

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I took great offence at a journalist who called me blokeish. I have always seen myself as metrosexual and in touch with…

— Angus Deayton

Im sorry Im not gay or Jewish, so I dont have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

— Vincent Gallo

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

— Amira Hass

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

— Jim Hightower

Whatever my critics say, I've been a hard-core journalist all my career.

— Jason Whitlock

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

— Pete Seeger

“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”

— Christopher Hitchens