Government Quote by Calvin Trillin

There's something structurally integrated with foreign coverage. Reporters often default to thinking of their government as the sort of ultimate authority.

— Masha Gessen

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

— Robert Harris

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

— Michael Pollan

You say we [reporters] are distracting...from the business of government. Well, I hope so. Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear…

— P J OâRourke

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated…

— Daniel Hannan

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

— Ron Suskind

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political…

— Frank Bruni

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's…

— Alex Gibney

For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of…

— Eliot Spitzer

I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest…

— Michael F. Jacobson

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind…

— Dan Rather

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent…

— Ronald Steel