Katy Tur Quotes

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians.

If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there.

Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.

I enjoy seeing the press. I learn much from reporters. In the White House press corps alone there are at least half a dozen experts already on animal husbandry.

It used to be that a journalist covering the White House had trouble getting news because each person there worked for the same person, while in Congress they are all independent contractors and you could get news. But today, the White House Staff are all independent contractors and that is a great place to get news.

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

My dream was to do political journalism.

I think it's incredibly important that we think about diversity in the context of the White House press corps, because it's important that the group of people there is representative of the diversity that we see throughout the country.

When you cover the White House, which I've done on and off, it's relatively straightforward - everything the president does is news.

I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.

I never thought I'd be covering the White House. I never thought I'd be covering the White House for CNN. And I never thought I'd be covering the White House for CNN while Donald Trump was president.

Reporters are always supposed to be demanding more access and more transparency. So the day that there isn't some friction between the White House press corps and the White House is the day that somebody in the press corps is not doing their job.

Covering Capitol Hill was my first assignment in political journalism, and I still think it is the best beat in Washington.

I didn't grow up the popular girl or the popular cheerleader. I've never been to a prom, I didn't have a lot of boyfriends, so I'm used to being on this side of life.

Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President.

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

Journalism combines adventure with culture.

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.

The White House press corps isn't there at a press briefing. It's not... They're not news gatherers there. There really isn't any media.