Journalist Quotes · Page 20

I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.

— Amira Hass

I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than…

— Michael Ignatieff

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

— Robert Redford

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

— Dave Barry

“The more you study, the more you subsequently know; naturally, the more you know, the nearer you get to perfection as a…

— Jack Kerouac

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

— Freeman Dyson

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

— Patricia Heaton

A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who…

— Ralph Peters

When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

— Tori Amos

Having Twitter on your phone is like being with a journalist that hates you 24 hours a day. Anything you say on…

— Colin Jost

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men…

— Cicely Tyson

Moving forward, investigative journalists need to train themselves to be media amphibians - just as comfortable with the classic verities of great…

— Arianna Huffington

When my grandfather was a journalist for the Detroit Tigers, he dressed the part. I mention it always to our local media:…

— Erik Spoelstra

With the war in Iraq, I had the cooperation of the Department of Defense. Kuwait was pretty eager to get American journalists…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist,…

— Ian Fleming

There is nothing remarkable about having media and foreign embassy contacts. When I lived in Saudi Arabia as a journalist, this was…

— Jamal Khashoggi

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably…

— Al Franken

On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off…

— Vanessa Redgrave

I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an…

— Ed Gordon

A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry…

— Noam Chomsky

“We must sober up and admit that too many of the Republicans and the Democrats have played us, lied to us and…

— Glenn Beck

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us…

— Oscar Wilde

What I found most ironic is that the safest part for us as journalists was during the actual war. Back then, during…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually…

— Conrad Black

I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.

— Rebekah Brooks

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

— Leigh Steinberg

I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.

— Winona LaDuke

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a…

— Shane Smith

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to…

— John Pomfret

I used to be an actor, I used to be a journalist and I used to be a publicist. I know how…

— Perez Hilton

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent”s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the…

— Jackson Browne

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list…

— Werner Herzog

One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.

— Suze Orman

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no…

— Humbert Wolfe

Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.

— Phillip Knightley

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

— Vivienne Westwood

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Mort Sahl

So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to…

— Megan Fox

Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist.

— Jay Leno