Andrew Marr Quotes

What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

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

I don't like to put labels on anyone. I'm a reporter. I'd rather observe and describe and question.

I'm a news anchor; I'm not an ideologue.