Correspondent Quotes
51 quotes by 44 authors
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It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.
— Russell Baker
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry…
— Russell Baker
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I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour.…
— Anthony Bourdain
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For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
— Robert Capa
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There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being…
— Steve Carell
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear…
— Jeff Cooper
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I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
— William Shakespeare
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These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of…
— William Paterson
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What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without fear of contradiction,…
— Jeff Gannon
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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place…
— Auberon Waugh
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The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
— Wilfred Burchett
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I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
— Alfred Hershey
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When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy…
— Adam Clymer
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My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners…
— Janine di Giovanni
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We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring…
— Henry Knox
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You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. ... Morpheous is my last companion ; without 8 or 9…
— Isaac Newton
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The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are…
— David McCullough
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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed…
— Alan Cranston
Who Wrote These Correspondent Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 51 Correspondent Quotes, led by these top contributors: