Matt Drudge

“You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.”

“A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.”

“I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.”

“If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?”

“I'm not mean.”

“I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.”

“Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.”

“Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.”

“There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.”

“It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.”

“I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.”

“I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.”

“All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.”

“The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.”

“With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.”

“I don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result.”

“If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?”

“I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.”

“The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.”

“The first step in good reporting is good snooping.”