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I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
— Marguerite Duras
The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.
— Yao Ming
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
— Karl Kraus
My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.
— Ward Churchill
Journalists are pretty much like European union. They don't take 'no' as an answer.
— Radovan Kavicky
Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.
— Rufus Sewell
Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing
— David Halberstam
Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.
— David Brooks
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.
— Robert Fisk
I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.
— Pedro Almodovar
Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.
— Rush Limbaugh
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
— Sebastian Junger
I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.
— Jorge Ramos
Civilians is one term journalists use to describe non-journalists. Another is laypeople. Or normals.
— Dan Lyons
Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.
— Emmett Tyrrell
[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.
— Caitlin Thomas
When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
— Glenn Greenwald
There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.
— Bernard Goldberg
The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.
— Rush Limbaugh
Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.
— Chris Powell
If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
— Tom Baker
But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.
— Roger Mudd
We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
— P. J. O'Rourke
In the future, journalists must ask: How do we encourage and support flows of information?
— Jeff Jarvis
I always want to know which tracks are the journalists' favourites.
— Planningtorock
Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.
— Manfred Gerstenfeld
Journalists are never hungry. They swallow everything.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.
— Honore De Balzac
It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.
— Patrick Cockburn
In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
— Nancy Gibbs
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
— Sam Harris
Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.
— Asif Ali Zardari
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
— Gerald Priestland
Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.
— Tyra Banks
Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.
— Steven Weinberg
My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, doesn't like to talk to reporters ...
— Thomas Pynchon
All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.
— Laurie Garrett
American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.
— Tony Snow
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
— Federico Fellini
Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.
— Stefanie Powers
Heres the problem: Journalists just dont understand their business.
— Randall Rothenberg
I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
— Felix Dennis
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
— Hedrick Smith
I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.
— Peter Jackson
Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it, accurately and carefully.
— David Burr Gerrard
Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.
— Eric Schlosser
I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.
— Anjem Choudary
Journalists assigned to an issue often cover the coverage, creating the notorious media echo chamber.
— Steven Pinker
I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.
— Joyce Banda
Freedom of speech isn't something you can mess with with journalists. You try to silence them, they'll shout even louder.
— Cecelia Ahern
If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.
— Glenn Greenwald
In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.
— Robert Fisk
That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
— Nick Denton
I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.
— Ronald Frame
Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.
— David Ignatius
A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.
— Robert Smith
History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
— Ray Stevenson
If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.
— Greg Gutfeld
Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
— David Remnick
I amused myself playing with the journalists.
— Brigitte Boisselier
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work
— Tyrell Biggs
When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
— Ian Hislop
I make friends faster and easier than journalists.
— Anthony Bourdain
Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I like journalists.
— George Wendt
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
— George Bernard Shaw
Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.
— Matt Welch
I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'
— Cameron Diaz
Journalists love to show their compassion.
— Bernard Goldberg
You know it's easy here to buy journalists.
— Emile Lahoud
Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.
— Sally Quinn
I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.
— Megyn Kelly
Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.
— Rupert Murdoch
I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.
— Chris Lilley
I wait for death and journalists.
— Jeanne Calment
When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.
— Paul Simon
He nodded, looking across the room at the sea of photographers and journalists. The microphones spread around him like birds waiting to be fed.
— F.C. Malby
David Axelrod says we need to inspire more young people to be journalists? How about inspiring journalists to be journalists?
— Ann Coulter
What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
— William Bennett