Being Quote by Samantha Power

I began college during the Iraq War and initially wanted to be a foreign correspondent.

— Kasie Hunt

It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think…

— Stephen Farrell

I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly -…

— Samantha Power

I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.

— Ana Patricia Botin

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

— Christopher Hitchens

I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found…

— Jim Webb

If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book…

— Hannah Simone

I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.

— Janine di Giovanni

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

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

— Jackie Kennedy

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

— Jamie Bell

I never wanted to be a reporter. I took a job at the New York Post as a clerk because I couldn't get a…

— Maggie Haberman