Roger Mudd Quotes

#1. I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.

Dorothy Garlock

#2. Committing to the wrong thing is better than standing still.

Jeff Goins

#3. Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

Roger Mudd

#4. In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Roger Mudd

#5. No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

Roger Mudd

#6. For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Roger Mudd

#7. Oh, good," I say, a sour taste in my mouth. "Heroism is what I was focused on. Not, you know, trying not to die.

Veronica Roth

#8. And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

Roger Mudd

#9. People often indiscriminately use absolutes in their utterances: every, everyone, everything, all, always, never, no one, nothing. Rarely are these absolute terms justified.

Robert J. Gula

#10. I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

Anthony Kiedis

#11. The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

Roger Mudd

#12. I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

DMX

#13. The world exists for the sake of kindness.

Rashi

#14. The fact that you woke up this morning is proof that this day has already been predetermined in your favor.

Russell Kyle

#15. Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

Roger Mudd

#16. As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

Roger Mudd

#17. Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

Roger Mudd

#18. But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

Roger Mudd

#19. I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

Rory Stewart

#20. The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.

Roger Mudd

#21. Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

Narendra Modi

#22. When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Jim Morrison

#23. Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

Roger Mudd

#24. The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

Roger Mudd

#25. The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Roger Mudd