Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Acosta

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Abilio James Acosta is an American broadcast journalist, anchor and the chief domestic correspondent for CNN. Previously, Acosta served as the network's chief White House correspondent during the Trump administration, in which he gained national attention for President Donald Trump's clashes with him at press briefings. Acosta also covered the Obama administration as CNN's senior White House correspondent. As Trump was about to leave office, it was announced on January 11, 2021 that Acosta had been appointed Anchor and Chief Domestic Correspondent for CNN.

American - Journalist | Born: April 17, 1971

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An adversarial relationship between the president and members of the press can be expected.

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Neutrality for the sake of neutrality doesn't really serve us in the age of Trump.

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We have seen presidents from both parties express their frustrations with the press. That's absolutely normal.

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I receive more threats than I could count; it's almost every week.

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As reporters, we not only deliver the news of the day. We must also defend the truth. And just because we are pro-truth doesn't mean we are anti-Trump.

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The vast majority of Trump supporters are wonderful people and I have very nice interactions with them.

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I don't want my kids to grow up in a country where the press is called the enemy of the people.

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I think we have reached the point where we can state definitively, that Nazis are bad people.

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Well I think we can't avoid covering the news and when the president says something like that you're the enemy of the people, I think I'm well within my right to stand up and say this is well within my lane as a journalist and as an American to say that that's not appropriate.

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My parents were blue-collar.

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I think aggressive, sometimes outspoken reporting from the White House briefing room is expected by the American people.

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My job is to ask tough questions.

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Trump is a branding expert. He is a marketing genius to some extent.

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It kind of goes without saying. But I will: If you are a Nazi, you aren't a fine person. You're bad.

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I have never witnessed a concerted effort by any news organization to take a stand one way or the other on a political issue, to damage one particular party or help another.

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I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

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We have to stand for the truth.

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I want my kids to grow up in a country where, you know, we can still shout questions at the president.

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We go through periods of turmoil in our nation's history, and one of the remarkable things about the United States is that we seem to keep making our way through those periods.

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Yes, I've received death threats.

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Google my name and 'Barack Obama.' There were many days I was tough on him. People have short-term memories. They think we're only being tough on Trump. That's just not true.

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I wish at times that the press had been a bit more in solidarity with one another.

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We have to speak truth to power.

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The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.

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I don't believe reporters are supposed to be the story. That's how I was trained.

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Yes, Barack Obama had his clashes with the press. I witnessed those first-hand covering the second term of his administration. But we did not have Barack Obama on almost a weekly basis referring to the press as the enemy of the people and accusing reporters of treason and calling legitimate stories fake news.

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Members of the press have been so savaged by Trump and his propagandists in the media that journalists seem almost foreign or anti-American to his supporters.

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We can't have Trump supporters only trust what comes out of conservative news media and vice versa.

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I was raised in this business not to make myself part of the story. I have never wanted to be part of the story.

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We should not have the president of the United States referring to segments of American society as the enemy of the people.

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When I cover a major presidential, when I vote for a major presidential, or when I cover a major presidential candidate out on the campaign trail, I make it a policy not to vote on the presidential ballot in that election.

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My job as a reporter, my job as a senior White House correspondent for CNN, is to report the news, but also to highlight and put a microscope on episodes of presidential hypocrisy. And you know, if Donald Trump was going to come after us out on the campaign trail, and as president of the United States through his tweets, I think we are well within our rights to defend ourselves, and also provide that kind of critical coverage to the American people.

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I think America is changing. I think we are becoming a country that is not as welcoming to immigrants anymore. You have a president Donald Trump just last week who was retweeting anti-Muslim videos. That causes great harm to the Muslim-American community in this country who are law-abiding, faithful, yet patriotic people in this country. And it's sad that they are denigrated in that fashion.

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Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Acosta

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