Andrew Breitbart Quotes

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

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

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.

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.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

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

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

I'm a journalism junkie.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

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.

I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.

My dream was to do political journalism.

I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.

As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience.

It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.