Reporter Quotes

#1. First reporter to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Maria Bartiromo

#2. If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

David Halberstam

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

Jackie Kennedy

#4. The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.

Michael Hastings

#5. I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one till I die. What else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?

Helen Thomas

#6. An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#7. Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.

Mike Wallace

#8. (reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune
'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'
(pause)
'No. Magic possesses them'.

Tommy Tune

#9. [To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Anna Magnani

#10. Not. Pound him because he cannot respond from jail, and why would he bother anyway? Do it Monday and make sure Dumas Lee and every other reporter with even

John Grisham

#11. If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

Joseph Lelyveld

#12. I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

Peter Jennings

#13. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action-even an opinion is a kind of action.

Graham Greene

#14. I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

Michael Hastings

#15. I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

Joe DiMaggio

#16. A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'

Clint Smith

#17. I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if you're a pro, and you're a reporter, you do it. Whether you agree with the guy or not is just quite incidental. It doesn't count at all, really.

Liz Trotta

#18. There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience.

Brit Hume

#19. With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

John Irving

#20. A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

Susan Cheever

#21. The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

Margaret Haddix

#22. As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.

Helen Thomas

#23. If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

Mario Cuomo

#24. I'm fully aware," Firth told a reporter for the English magazine Now, "that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

Colin Firth

#25. As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.

Lewis H. Lapham

#26. I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city.

William Finnegan

#27. One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

Terry Pratchett

#28. A reporter who makes actual money for asking question so dumb they are surreal will inquire, How did you feel?

Stephen King

#29. No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Barbara Kingsolver

#30. A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

Bob Woodward

#31. Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.

Jill Abramson

#32. In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

Anthony Shadid

#33. W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to the extent that Shakespeare or Browning is. One is not quite certain that his kingdom is of the green earth. He is like a man who has seen the earth not directly but in a crystal.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#34. After a deplorable day afield, when asked by a reporter what he thought of his team's execution

Casey Stengel

#35. They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.

Andrea Mitchell

#36. No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

Dee Dee Myers

#37. I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.

Daryn Kagan

#38. I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen that as much as possible. I don't think the responsibility of the reporter or journalist is fundamentally different.

Pankaj Mishra

#39. It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Judy Woodruff

#40. Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.

Art Garfunkel

#41. I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.

Jojo Moyes

#42. The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

Gay Talese

#43. Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

Charles Kuralt

#44. It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#45. When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

Gene Simmons

#46. Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

Sarah Koenig

#47. Years ago, I did an interview about my mother for a publication called 'Info' magazine, and during that interview I told the reporter about my mother's leiomyosarcoma. She had had a hysterectomy, but at the time of it, the doctors didn't even think to look for sarcoma.

Peri Gilpin

#48. There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.

Charlie LeDuff

#49. If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.

Max Hastings

#50. It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

George Packer

#51. But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

David Sedaris

#52. A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

Maureen Dowd

#53. Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

Cal Thomas

#54. Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.

Ben Bagdikian

#55. I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

Janine Di Giovanni

#56. When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.

Jill Davis

#57. I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

George W. Bush

#58. Get over here and talk to her. She's a reporter, not a Dementor."
"Harry Potter nerd."
"Whatever. Take the damn phone.

Robin Benway

#59. The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

Derek Tangye

#60. I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

Charles Kuralt

#61. It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.

Frederick Winslow Taylor

#62. The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#63. I've been in several situations where police officers and district attorneys have had the cooperation of people in the news media without either endangering the reporter or compromising their sources.

Edwin Meese

#64. Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.

Dana Goodyear

#65. You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter,

John Oliver

#66. Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

H.L. Mencken

#67. One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.

Bill Keller

#68. About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Howie Carr

#69. A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

#70. I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.

P. J. O'Rourke

#71. He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable from that perspective.

Isabel Allende

#72. Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

Larry Kramer

#73. Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.

Linda Ellerbee

#74. I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Ken Follett

#75. For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver
that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.

Anna Quindlen

#76. Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

Kim Cattrall

#77. I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

Chris Hayes

#78. There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

Peter King

#79. I've felt afraid as a reporter many times. Sometimes it's sharp, as in a bad moment, or a bad situation; other times it's general, as in a country known for kidnapping, where you can never quite relax.

William Finnegan

#80. I'm pretty much a documents reporter. I'm a public records geek.

Bill Dedman

#81. As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

Andy Rooney

#82. Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

Douglas Brinkley

#83. If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#84. While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.

Kara Swisher

#85. In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

Janine Di Giovanni

#86. I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.

Eric McCormack

#87. I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

Nick McDonell

#88. When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

Adam Davidson

#89. My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.

Jason Calacanis

#90. Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.

Pete Hamill

#91. The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

Carl Bernstein

#92. Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

David Coleman

#93. Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

H. G. Bissinger

#94. As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

Jill Abramson

#95. But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

Bob Schieffer

#96. I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people.

Charlotte Arnold

#97. A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.

Mitch McConnell

#98. I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

Charles Kuralt

#99. A reporter asked Barth what was the single most important theological discovery he'd made. After stopping to consider his answer carefully, Barth said, "Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so." Indeed, we can never outgrow that one great, majestic, and simple transforming truth.

Mark Driscoll

#100. My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

Peter Jacobson