Famous quotes by Journalists

"A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel"

Heywood Broun, Journalist

"All men would be tyrants if they could"

Daniel Defoe, Journalist

"The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority"

James Reston, Journalist

"When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not"

Flora Lewis, Journalist

"It's no sin to cheat the devil"

Daniel Defoe, Journalist

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast"

John Gunther, Journalist

"It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes"

Abigail Van Buren, Journalist

"Too much truth is uncouth"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media"

Ted Koppel, Journalist

"A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now"

Mort Sahl, Journalist

"If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?"

John Gunther, Journalist

"Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen"

Mort Sahl, Journalist

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved"

Henry Mayhew, Journalist

"But you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings"

Hodding Carter, Journalist

"The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"The walls are the publishers of the poor"

Eduardo Galeano, Journalist

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