Ron Fournier Quotes

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

My dream was to do political journalism.

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.

I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation’s capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.

You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.

One of the things I love most about the Capitol Hill beat is that I have regular access to the lawmakers I cover.

I'm a journalism junkie.

I think if you had to choose between running a tabloid and being president of the United States, of course you'd run the tabloid, especially in New York.

I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened.

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.

It took me a long time to be able to write for the 'New Yorker,' and for me, that has been the best job. I live a very conventional life, but reporting for the magazine has allowed me to do things I would never otherwise do, such as investigating a criminal conspiracy in Guatemala or trekking through the Amazon looking for a lost city.

I was in Bucks County at the 'Bucks County Currier Times,' which is a great place to start for any reporter who wants to start out.

I've been involved in politics for quite some time. I've held positions, and my experiences are very deep, and I think I have the capacity, the courage, and the character to institute the kinds of reforms that are so desperately needed.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

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.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

I've wanted to interview Hillary Clinton since I was 15 years old.

I'm not a politician; I'm a journalist.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.