Floyd Abrams Quotes

Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.

Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

As any journalist will tell you, there are few professional situations as vexing as when a friend becomes involved in a major story that you feel you must cover.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

I'm a member of the media. I'm America's Anchorman.

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.

That's what I think a journalist from the '70s and '80s should look like - as though he has led a full journalistic life.

I'm a recovering journalist, I should say.

I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.

I'm not an expert on journalistic standards. I want to be clear on that.

I look forward to breaking huge stories on InfoWars.

In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the 'Post', the 'Post' won the public service medal two years running.

I don't think any of the journalists in 'Broadchurch' are villainous. I think they're all trying to do their jobs under difficult circumstances.

Very early in my career, I almost went to journalism school.

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

I have no interest in interfering or involving myself in journalistic integrity or process.

I think the media's responsibility is to get to the bottom of things - to get to the truth.

When I was in college, I walked by the journalism school every day on my way to my own classes, and that's the closest I've come to having any sort of journalism background.

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.

When you are a journalist and there is a big story like Dominic Cummings, it's great to be at the heart of it. What I love, and it sounds a bit cheesy, is you feel connected to other people.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

Journalism is not writing.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.