Top 505 Reporters Quotes & Sayings

I don't let a lot of reporters meet my children.

What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.

When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.

We were the underground reporters.

Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters--and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story.

Look at Donald Trump: He loves to call out individual reporters by name, which leads to major problems in those reporters' lives. I certainly don't want to add to that myself.

Reporters aren't actually people!

I believe that that responsibility that reporters have is worthy of me showing them respect, and that's what I try to do on a regular basis, and I have been pleased that most reporters have reciprocated and shown me respect as well.

Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

After all, the reporters are the ones who get to ask the questions.

Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'

I'm always having to get rid of reporters.

Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

Unfortunately, the reporters ask the same questions over and over again. When reporters keep asking the same questions, they've got to recognize I may hear these questions 20 to 30 times in a matter of days. It gets to the point where I think, 'Read the other interviews!'

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

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

I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester.

The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

I think any reasonable person knows which reporters to eliminate.

We're not seeing, you know, dozens of reporters being beaten up. And there may be more attention to it than there has been in the past. But it is important to recognize that the democracy depends on reporters asking people in power questions, so that the general public has information. We can't really self-govern unless information is widespread. And, sometimes, reporters have to be a little aggressive. I mean, you know, the reporter didn't beat up the politician. The politician beat up the reporter.

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

I got rid of all those reporters.

By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.

Reporters, even flawed reporters, should not be jailed for protecting even flawed sources.

Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down.

Everyone is on Facebook and age is not a determinant of whether a reporter is using Twitter as part of their newsgathering and marketing. Some of the transition is about money at this point - hiring younger reporters is cheaper. Often these reporters are more digitally savvy. But there are plenty of 50-plus journalists employers can find now who are excited about technology, not threatened. It is no longer an either/or proposition.

I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.

I've always been a guy who didn't mind speaking to reporters.

I scarcely talk to reporters at all.

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What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

I have PTSD from all the reporters coming in over the years.

Most reporters are sheep in wolves' clothing.

News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

There is evidence Rand Paul has a real problem with women reporters.

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

So many reporters have blurred the line between reporting and editorializing.

The news is fake because so much of the news is fake. So one thing that I felt it was very important to do - and I hope we can correct it. Because there's nobody I have more respect for - well, maybe a little bit but the reporters, good reporters.

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

All I can ask for is honest reporters.

Bloggers are not reporters.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.

War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.

It is fair to say there is a lot of pressure placed on female reporters.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.