Maggie Haberman Quotes

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.

I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'. I came back to 'SI' as a contract writer.

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.

It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of the 'Wall Street Journal' and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970.

My career, it's been a mess.

I studied broadcast journalism at Pepperdine University. After a short career in television with MTV and later on at FX Network, I found my true calling in Eventbrite.

I wanted to go to college to be a journalist and follow in my dad's work. And then I became an actor.

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

Well, any time they would like to take over this job, they can have it.

Find out what happened and put it in the paper

I tried a few grad school programs because I didn't know how to make it... Eventually, I was desperate for a job, and there was a new newspaper opening up in Washington, D.C., called 'The Hill.' Even though my interest in politics wasn't huge, they gave me a job as a copy editor.

When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.

One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.