Reporters Quotes · Page 6

Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters,…

— Eugene Richards

You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now.…

— Robert Crumb

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

— Fred Reed

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

— Peggy Noonan

I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

— Russel Honore

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the…

— Bob Woodward

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for…

— William Greider

Lexicographers are language reporters.

— Erin McKean

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

— P. J. O'Rourke

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have…

— Walter Cronkite

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

— Phil Donahue

Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary,…

— Jay Leno

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he…

— Henry David Thoreau

In Chicago some anti-Mitt Romney protesters told reporters they're being paid to protest. They said they're being paid by Democrats to stand…

— Jay Leno

... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.

— Jack Paar

And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others.…

— Lee Gutkind

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

— Hunter S. Thompson

He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if…

— Robert Scheer

There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White…

— Evan Thomas

Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free…

— Michael Parenti

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

— Michael Kinsley

It doesn't upset me when people are annoyed or bothered by what may seem to them as a redundancy of topics about…

— Soledad O'Brien

I'm a reporter. I've been a big supporter of The Clinton Foundation. Back in 2001 and 2002, people forget that Bill Clinton…

— Donna Brazile

There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung…

— Camille Paglia

It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.

— Frederick Winslow Taylor