Andrew Marr Quotes

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

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!'

I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.

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.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

Essentially, there is no media, folks. There just isn't any media in the sense that there are reporters out there uncovering things you and I don't know and telling us what they are.

I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

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

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

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

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'm a journalist and that's what I do.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

I'm still a news junkie. I mean, I always was, I am now.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.