Reporters Quotes · Page 6

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

— Michael Hastings

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

— Jack Germond

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

— Jill Abramson

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

— Chris Hayes

“Y’all reporters like my quotes, don’t you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious.”

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Fred Reed

I am always happy to work with reporters who uphold journalistic integrity.

— Anna Paulina Luna

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

— Laurie Beth Jones

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

— Amy Goodman

I don't say anything. One of the reporters asked me in the scrum in there, and I said, no, I didn't say…

— Joe Maddon

I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get…

— Jonathan Karl

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find…

— Ben Bradlee

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

— Douglas Brinkley

I've felt afraid as a reporter many times. Sometimes it's sharp, as in a bad moment, or a bad situation; other times…

— William Finnegan

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

— Robert Bork

We know what Donald Trump has said and what he's done to women. But he also went after a disabled reporter, mocked…

— Hillary Clinton

There are a lot of reporters who I feel are a lot more courageous and fool-hardy than I am. Maybe at the…

— Lawrence Wright

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and…

— James Wolcott

I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it,…

— Bo Jackson

I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories.…

— Terry Pratchett

It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks…

— Chris Hedges

The story he [Todd Willingham] told me was this: He woke up to a fire. He ran out of the house and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire…

— Helen Thomas

In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how…

— Marianne Williamson

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

— H. L. Mencken

I've been very transparent with reporters, but they only want to print mean stuff.

— Louise Linton

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

— Kara Swisher

First reporter to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

— Maria Bartiromo

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

— Michael Kinsley

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

— Jim Walton

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

— Edward Bennett Williams

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

— David Carr

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

— Anonymous

Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better.

— Beth Macy

It is fair to say there is a lot of pressure placed on female reporters.

— Kristen Welker

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

— Andy Rooney

When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it.

— Leon Russell