News Quotes

"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray"

"I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways"

Ron Chernow, Author

"At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life"

Howard Coble, Politician

"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges"

John Sayles, Director

"We cannot make good news out of bad practice"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents"

Bob Schaffer, Politician

"I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons"

Ogden Nash, Poet

"Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"Nothing in fine print is ever good news"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"I have to watch the news or my day is not complete"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"Business news is sexy"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like"

Erik Qualman, Author

"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world"

Esther Williams, Actress

"I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person"

Julian Bond, Activist

"When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"Journalism as theater is what TV news is"

Thomas Griffith, Editor

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