Reporters Quotes · Page 6

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

— Robert Osborne

The only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters, OK? They're the only who ask.

— Donald Trump

“The very toughest reporters were women who had taken over the jobs of men who'd gone to war.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.

— Tom Robinson

“They're not the best women covering politics, They're the best reporters covering politics.”

— Katy Tur

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

— Joseph Heller

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

— Michael Schudson

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

— Nick McDonell

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

— Tom Wolfe

Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter…

— John Maxwell Hamilton

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters…

— Mike Wallace

With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without…

— Rush Limbaugh

The case against Susan Rice has been building for years with little fanfare. Not surprising, the mainstream media reporters based at the…

— Richard Grenell

She ate a television journalist for breakfast and, feeling peckish, bit off some reporters' heads at a press conference.

— Trevor Fishlock

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

— Helen Thomas

“Reporters would just use the most interesting (and, usually, unhelpful) sound bites in my lengthy responses to their questions, instead of writing…

— Al Franken

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

— Shana Alexander

As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving…

— Martin Cooper

What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without…

— Jeff Gannon

The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical…

— Kenneth Clark

I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of…

— Sarah Stillman

People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not…

— Aaron Sorkin

Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news…

— Tom Brokaw

During a news conference, when he was standing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President [Donald] Trump responded to a question…

— Amy Goodman

Just make it (his obituary): born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917.

— Jascha Heifetz

The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

— Witold Walczak

“To be successful as a journalist, you must be curious and have a yearning for learning facts.”

— Germany Kent

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

— Daniel Okrent

Sometimes in the moment when I'm doing a press conference, one of my favorite things is to watch reporters.

— Blake Griffin

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

— Robert Orben

President Obama has regularly granted special access to reporters who give him preferential coverage.

— Ben Shapiro

“But you know what?" Neil said before the reporters could respond. "That's petty.”

— Nora Sakavic

I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won’t be…

— Michael Grimm

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

— David Coleman

So many reporters have blurred the line between reporting and editorializing.

— Andrew R. Wheeler

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

— Peggy Noonan

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

— Chester A. Arthur

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

— Calvin Trillin

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

— Don Feder

I have PTSD from all the reporters coming in over the years.

— Nadya Suleman