Journalists Quotes

Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.

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

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.