W. Edwards Deming Quotes

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.

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

My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.

I like journalists.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

I'm a journalism junkie.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and go. That was never the impression that David Astor gave when you were interviewed by him. It was far deeper than that.

My dream was to do political journalism.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.