Famous quotes by Journalists

"Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it"

Henry Mayhew, Journalist

"We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles"

Henry Mayhew, Journalist

"Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings"

Henry Mayhew, Journalist

"I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"I am enduring. You can disagree with me"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves"

Dorothy Dix, Journalist

"There's no such thing as an independent person"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it"

Art Buchwald, Journalist

"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war"

John Andrew Holmes, Journalist

"I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike"

Jim McKay, Journalist

"With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living"

Gay Talese, Journalist

"It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit, if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

"Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it"

Gordon Sinclair, Journalist

"Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

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