Reporters Quotes

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

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

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

I got rid of all those reporters.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

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

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

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

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in a journalism context, and gravitas and coats and ties and haircuts and all that sort of stuff, I’ll leave to others. My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I’m very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.

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

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

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

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they wanna write something that you wanna hear but not necessarily millions of people wanna hear or have to hear.

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.

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

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

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

All I can ask for is honest reporters.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

A reporter is no better than his source of information.

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

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

Most reporters are sheep in wolves' clothing.

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 always thought of myself as a reporter.

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

Reporters aren't actually people!

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

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

I never knew what a reporter looked like.