Reince Priebus Quotes

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.

With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Every war has seen unscrupulous reporters who are willing to hurt the national effort, even betray secrets, for the sake of a story…but it did no good to treat the press as enemies.

Reporters love this country too and they care about national security.

Journalists should wear a white uniform to indicate the purity of their character.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

There is kind of this spirit in journalism to tell both sides of the story and to just let the listeners choose what they want to choose, and I understand that, and there's a place for it, but on some issues, we really do need to take a stand.

It's essential that the media is sober and intentional in everything they do, and that's something we should all keep top of mind.

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.

We all work for media, we all make mistakes all the time. That's inevitable. What the difference between a responsible journalistic institution is, does it care whether it makes mistakes or not? And does it correct them?

The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth and of reputation.