Availability Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“Reporters would just use the most interesting (and, usually, unhelpful) sound bites in my lengthy responses to their questions, instead of writing about the…

— Al Franken

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will…

— Floyd Abrams

“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my…

— Terence Winter

As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.

— Michael Connelly

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch…

— Larry Speakes

“...news' is often a polite way of saying 'editor's whim.”

— Tom Rachman

Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,…

— Jack Vance

I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know, this speech…

— Barack Obama

Donald Trump has come on a lot and I think one of the hardest parts of my job is digging down beyond their talking…

— Maria Bartiromo

I'm interested, obviously, in what viewers have to say. And obviously as a journalist I want to have my finger on the pulse. But…

— Alisyn Camerota