Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Shepard Smith

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Shepard Smith.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Shepard Smith

David Shepard Smith Jr. is an American broadcast journalist for NBC News and CNBC, where he serves as chief general news anchor and hosts The News with Shepard Smith, a daily evening newscast launched in late September 2020. Smith is best known for his 23-year career at Fox News Channel, which he joined at its 1996 inception and where he served as chief anchor and managing editor of the breaking news division. Smith hosted several programs in his tenure at Fox News, including Fox Report, Studio B and Shepard Smith Reporting.

Not even my parents know how I vote.
Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.
The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.
There has to be news at a place called Fox News. — © Shepard Smith
There has to be news at a place called Fox News.
I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.
I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.
In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.
I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.
Oh, I don't talk about God.
I've always been fascinated by weather.
Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.
I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.
We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.
When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.
Working for the Man seemed really good to me.
I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.
It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they don't know me.
I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.
I like stories that affect families.
I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.
I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.
We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.
I don't own a car.
When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the one doing the news. It's my show, and there's no place for opinion on my show. It's uninteresting to me.
I'm a journalist, I run to the fire, that's what we do.
I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media. — © Shepard Smith
I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.
We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.
I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.
We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two health care workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States.
I’m a journalist; I run to the fire, that’s what we do.
That is all the perspective you need!
I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.
And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.
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