Appeals Quote by Bob Schieffer

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

— Bob Woodward

The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of…

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

— Garrett Graff

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.

— Tariq Ali

I will say that the difference was that when you're an Army journalist, as opposed to a civilian correspondent covering the military, you're very…

— Clarence Page

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when…

— Ron Suskind

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

— Stephanie Grisham

It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

— Peter King

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There's a tendency in the news media, on the part of some managers, to censor or block stories that don't fall in line with…

— Sharyl Attkisson