Reporter Quotes · Page 3

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

— Theodore White

“I’m quite capable of taking responsibility for my own death.”

— Brynn Kelly

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

— David Grann

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than…

— Phyllis Battelle

I'm an international studies major. I've been a reporter. I was always interested in media, but I just didn't know specifically what.

— Claudia Kim

Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.

— Dana Goodyear

“Read it to me.” “Seriously?” he said quietly. “You want me to read you poetry? Like saving your life ten times wasn’t…

— Brynn Kelly

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

— H. L. Mencken

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

— Laurie Beth Jones

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was…

— Larry Kramer

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of…

— Joseph Lelyveld

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has…

— Bob Schieffer

I have been a print reporter my whole career. It's all I ever wanted to be. I specialize in political profiles. I…

— Mark Leibovich

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public…

— Kevin Cramer

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for…

— Tom Stoppard

My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about…

— Dana Priest

To think that in 2012, I had a nine or ten-day contract for Channel 4 to be a reporter and I remember…

— Alex Brooker

I remember thinking about how fun it would be to be a reporter. I had a dream, when I was little, to…

— Katia Winter

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more…

— Joseph Alsop

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

— Sam Raimi

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

— Mark Cuban

“A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.”

— Fred Reed

I've always prided myself on embracing the concept that almost no-one is indispensible, certainly not a news reporter.

— Katty Kay

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

— Jill Abramson

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

— Jack Germond

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a…

— Helen Thomas

I was always the sideline reporter or something similar to that - which is essentially, but this isn't always true, the 'woman's…

— Samantha Ponder

Painter baby you could be the muse. I'm the reporter baby you could be the news.

— Miguel Jontel

The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt…

— Carl Bernstein

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

I was in Bucks County at the 'Bucks County Currier Times,' which is a great place to start for any reporter who…

— Erik Larson

I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have…

— Anderson Cooper

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can…

— Andrew Ferguson

“A reporter who makes actual money for asking question so dumb they are surreal will inquire, "How did you feel?”

— Stephen King

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

— Jessica Savitch

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what…

— Judy Woodruff

I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.

— Tamron Hall

So often, as a reporter, we have to parachute into places. We don't have much time. We have to make sense of…

— Elizabeth Flock

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

— Ed Bradley

I know better than to ever attempt to get a reporter removed from covering any topic. That would never be an option.

— Stephanie Grisham