News Quotes

"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

"The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"Men still control the news, both on and off camera"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"No news at 4:30 a.m. is good"

Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady

"I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"Literature is news that stays news"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

"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

"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

"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 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

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

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"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

"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

"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

"Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"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

"The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"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

"We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"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

"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

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