News Quotes

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off"

"I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News"

"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"

"If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?"

"The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later"

"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio"

"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news"

"I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?"

"Once again I stopped listening to the news this week"

"To the old, the new is usually bad news"

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper"

"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich"

"Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane"

"The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it"

"I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us"

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

"It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth"

"Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world"

"I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough"

"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business"

"Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it"

"I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news"

"I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles"

"I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system"

"This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded"

"God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey"

"I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories"

"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world"

"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs"