Journalists Quotes

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

I wait for death and journalists.

If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

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.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

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.

Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.

And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.