Journalists Quotes

“The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here, but journalists and writers should honestly look at their material and have a real interest, a real passion in what they want to write, and they should also have a lot of knowledge as well.”

“I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.”

“Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.”

“I've always admired the fine work of the journalists at CNN and I'm honored to join their ranks.”

“It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.”

“My first movie that came out - 'Shopping,' a British movie starring Jude Law and Sadie Frost - there were certain journalists in the U.K. who just eviscerated that movie.”

“The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.”

“I do appreciate journalists that come out a little bit more, I would say, unexpected. Ask me some other things that don't relate or don't have to do with my tennis match, or maybe have to do with my tennis match but in a way in a deeper sense.”

“If you know anything about Ethiopia, they are very security conscious, a very closed environment. It's a repressive place were journalists and bloggers are arrested all the time.”

“As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.”

“Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not do the most basic tasks without a veil of secrecy. Why shouldn't the same be true of those professionals who happen to be government officials?”

“I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.”

“My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.”

“The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.”

“Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.”

“While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.”

“With regards to Trump's treatment of Putin and Russia, national security experts and journalists have been citing the fact pattern and saying there's something strange going on.”

“Being on 'House of Cards' really has given me so much more than just a job; the interactions I have had with real White House correspondents, other journalists and bloggers relating to my character Janine - and their thanking me for representing them - has been extraordinary.”

“Many think of the sciences as merely a fund of knowledge. Journalists never ask scientists anything other than what the applications are of scientific breakthroughs. Interestingly, I doubt they ever ask a musician, writer, or actor the same question. I wonder why.”

“I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.”