Jayson Blair Quotes

#1. When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.

Gary Weiss

#2. There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

Ted Rall

#3. Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.

Langston Hughes

#4. Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

Jayson Blair

#5. I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

Jayson Blair

#6. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can see.

Arthur Koestler

#7. I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

Jayson Blair

#8. Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

Jayson Blair

#9. I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

Jayson Blair

#10. That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle.

Eileen Wilks

#11. I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Jayson Blair

#12. Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.

Mark Batterson

#13. I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

Jayson Blair

#14. I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

Jayson Blair

#15. You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

Jayson Blair

#16. Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

Jayson Blair

#17. Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

Mel Martinez

#18. My book, Ambassador Book one: how to take on the world and win will help to illuminate many of the obstacles that we all must face in order to succeed. You are invited on a journey of personal discovery.

Ken Taylor

#19. Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

Jayson Blair

#20. You face racism in small and large ways.

Jayson Blair

#21. It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Jayson Blair

#22. I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

Jayson Blair

#23. It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.

Rosie O'Donnell

#24. It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

Jayson Blair

#25. I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

Jayson Blair

#26. People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

Jayson Blair

#27. If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

Jayson Blair

#28. Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

Veronica Roth

#29. She shook her head and hugged me, laying her head on my shoulder. I squeezed her to me, and buried my face in her neck. When we were like that, quiet, happy, ignoring the fact that we weren't supposed to be anything more than friends, it was the only place I wanted to be.

Jamie McGuire

#30. One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

Jayson Blair

#31. I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

Jayson Blair

#32. When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

Jayson Blair

#33. My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#34. Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

Jayson Blair

#35. The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us
each one singly and altogether
to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.

Pope John Paul II

#36. Happy people make people happy, but I can't make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.

Gretchen Rubin

#37. Everything God does is love -even when we do not understand Him.

Basilea Schlink

#38. I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.

Jayson Blair