Famous quotes by Journalists

"The walls are the publishers of the poor"

Eduardo Galeano, Journalist

Eduardo Galeano

"The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"The first and great commandment is: don't let them scare you"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

Elmer Davis

"The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

Ray Stannard Baker

"Right now, the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years"

Jim McKay, Journalist

"Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here!"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring who reaps a harvest in the Autumn"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks"

Alistair Cooke, Journalist

Alistair Cooke

"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew"

Herb Caen, Journalist

"I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991"

Jon Lee Anderson, Journalist

"In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture"

Nancy Banks Smith, Journalist

"Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes"

Pat Buchanan, Journalist

"Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history"

Carl T. Rowan, Journalist

"If we don't have an informed electorate, we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it"

Jim Lehrer, Journalist

"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"

Irv Kupcinet, Journalist

Irv Kupcinet

"You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun"

Helen Thomas, Journalist

Helen Thomas

"I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible"

Anderson Cooper, Journalist

Anderson Cooper

"Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion"

Robert Quillen, Journalist

"I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those holiday programmes"

Jill Dando, Journalist

Jill Dando

"One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him"

Jeffrey Bernard, Journalist

"Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all"

Bernard Levin, Journalist

"The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government"

Amy Goodman, Journalist

Amy Goodman

"Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves"

Adrienne Clarkson, Journalist

"Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool"

Bill O'Reilly, Journalist

"At what point does CNN wise up and rein in 'Larry King Live' to save itself?"

Phil Rosenthal, Journalist

"It's better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same"

Philip Gibbs, Journalist

"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?"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

Matt Drudge

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