Book Quote by Masha Gessen

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course of about…

— Masha Gessen

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

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

— Ana Patricia Botin

I interviewed Putin himself in 2000, shortly after he took over as president.

— Chrystia Freeland

I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians.

— Jim Lynch

If you read anything I've written about Putin, heard anything I've said about Russia since I left in 2000, you'd know that I'm not…

— Michael Caputo

I was a bad journalist.

— David Brock

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

— Christopher Hitchens

The story started over a decade ago when I ran Hermitage Capital Management, the largest investment firm in Russia. I was very successful, but…

— Bill Browder

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

— David Cunliffe

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is…

— Anna Politkovskaya