Journalist Quotes · Page 21

I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class…

— Mark Leibovich

I'm not a liberal or conservative journalist, I'm saying conservative-owned media corporations seem to be treated differently.

— Sharyl Attkisson

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

— Maureen Dowd

If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But…

— Henry Rollins

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,…

— Sara Sheridan

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade…

— Tom Hanks

We drank quite a lot and Tony Harrington said, "We're thinking of starting a record label at The Wire; how about you…

— David Toop

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more…

— Katharine Graham

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

I fell in love with the idea of writing songs when I was a child. I thought I was going to be…

— Leslie Bricusse

I have been active as a writer and journalist for nearly forty years. But the number of great reporters I have run…

— Shana Alexander

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.

— Anonymous

Once I came out in college I just have always been out and at work with pretty much everybody. My wife and…

— Lydia Polgreen

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other…

— Julian Assange

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what…

— Jim Lehrer

Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and…

— Charles Simic

I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange.…

— Craig F. Bohren

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

— Sebastian Junger

If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason.

— Mort Sahl

I knew I was going to be a journalist, and that was it.. full stop.

— Suzy Welch

Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a…

— Brianna Wu

some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would…

— Jerri Nielsen

If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

— Salman Rushdie

...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti…

— John Shelby Spong