Journalism Quote by Jim Hightower Download Open image “When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.” — Jim Hightower ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Journalism Politics
Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other. — Sebastian Arcelus Copy Share Image
And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
I kept thinking, I'm not going to do political journalism, because there's no way to keep my principles and be a political journalist, so… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course.… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism. — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics. — Ana Patricia Botin Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy,… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
“He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge past security… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were… — Ashleigh Banfield Copy Share Image
The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however,… — William Jackson Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image