Hands Quote by Bob Woodward

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

— Thomas Watson, Jr

Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.

— Grant Shapps

I don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.

— Cenk Uygur

“In politics democracy itself is at stake in this world of high-speed always-on news. Political reporters pronounce sudden verdicts upon the politicians they often…

— Ian Hargreaves

That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to…

— Andrew Neil

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

— Will McDonough

I'm not a politician; I'm a journalist.

— Maria Ressa

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

— Lucy Stone

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

— Tom Baker

Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.

— Yair Lapid

People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.

— Delia Parr

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

— Umberto Eco