Reporter Quotes

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Before, Hell, Choice

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

Down, President

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy Rooney

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo

Smart, Judge, Law

Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?
Rush Limbaugh

Trust, Sunday, Someone

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Character, Fact, Evidence

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.
Tom Stoppard

Meet, Gave, Thrilled

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
Jackie Kennedy

After, Wanted, College

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
Jackie Kennedy

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.
Mike Wallace

Best, Country, Friends

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
Charles Kuralt

Time, Romantic, Remember

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
Charles Kuralt

Saying, Said, Kids

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.
Charles Kuralt

Life, Romantic, Live

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

Mother, Wanted, Her

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
Kim Cattrall

Job, Gossip, Spit

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus

Life, Truth, Lies

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

Cheating, Public, Innocent

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.
Dee Dee Myers

Around, Flying, Borrowed

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Willa Cather

Best, Character, Everything

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.
Russell Baker

Today, After, Young

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.
Mitch McConnell

Sleep, Night, Trouble

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
Bob Woodward

Government, Him, Keep

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.
Gene Simmons

Daily, Through, Working

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.
Joan Didion

Best, Forget, Small

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.
Edward R. Murrow

Tomorrow, Nothing, Done

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.
Bob Woodward

Great, Night, Lives

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.
Mike Wallace

Important, Integrity

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

Humorist, Pretended

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

Everyone, Treats, Yorker

Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.
Bob Schieffer

Hurt, Political, Guy

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