Best Reporters Quotes

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

The New York Times is an institution that attracts careerists, who are drawn to power and access. This gave me a kind of a free hand. The kind of work that I wanted to do, most of the other reporters didn’t want to do. I was not doing lunch. I was not sucking up to officials. I was writing from the street.

You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I’m a f***ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I’m here for entertainment, basically, when you whittle everything away. I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

After all, the reporters are the ones who get to ask the questions.

As secretary of state you can go out in a helmet if you want to. Even in Switzerland in front of reporters.

To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton’s Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You’ve never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?

I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can’t understand and grasp seems to lead me.

I’ve been a reporter for 20 years, and I don’t ever get things wrong. That’s important in terms of my professional status.

I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.

A reporter shoots first, aims later.

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

The entire report [on Russians hackers attacks] is based on unnamed sources who are perhaps doing something they shouldn’t be doing by speaking to reporters or someone talking out of line about something that is absolutely not true.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it’s cynicism.

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.

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

I don’t think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.

Sometimes the people who hurt us the most are people who were hurt more than us.

As a comedian, I’m like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.

I’m a reporter. I’m not a scholar.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

I didn’t realize what fun it was [ been a reporter].

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

[ I’m] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I’d never been a reporter.

Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation’s capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.

I got rid of all those reporters.

A reporter is never put off by somebody not wanting to be interviewed.

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

I’m an inexperienced reporter, and I’m still learning.

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

I’m interested in Russian language, culture, history… and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.