News Quotes

"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too"

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

Anne Frank, Writer

"The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are"

Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Publisher

"Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators"

Chris Hughes, Entrepreneur

"All news is an exaggeration of life"

Daniel Schorr, Journalist

"If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it"

Larry King, Entertainer

"Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody"

David Shuster, Journalist

"The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close"

Richard J. Codey, Politician

"People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry"

Jim Lehrer, Journalist

"The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings"

Reese Schonfeld, Journalist

"Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity"

Michael Jeffery, Politician

"Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago"

Arthur Machen, Author

"People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us"

Lev Yilmaz, Artist

"There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time"

Jef I. Richards, Professor

"I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV"

Sam Waterston, Actor

"I don't think business news is just for old white men with money"

Neil Cavuto, Journalist

"The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it"

Fred W. Friendly, Producer

"Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it"

Jim Lehrer, Journalist

"I'm very wary of news on television"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms"

Dick Morris, Author

"Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world"

Jim Walton, Businessman

"Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig"

Joe Rogan, Comedian

"And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours"

Don Hewitt, Producer

"People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long"

Frank Rich, Journalist

"Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about"

David Cross, Comedian

"I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are"

Tito Jackson, Musician

"There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news"

Pat Sajak, Entertainer

"TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health"

Tom Petty, Musician

"I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show"

Samantha Bee, Comedian

"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress"

Liz Smith, Journalist

"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs"

Kamal Ahmed, Comedian

"We report the news. Fox talks about the news"

Jonathan Klein, Businessman

"These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home"

Robert Matsui, Politician

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