David Fahrenthold Quotes

There are some things about Trump's foundation and charity that I really want to know. I worry there may not be enough time to figure it all out.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

[Journalists are] more attentive to the minute hand of history than to the hour hand.

The press are the chroniclers of history as it is made.

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially … a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive.

In the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'

That all history shows the necessity, in order to the preservation of liberty, of every subjects having a watchful eye on the conduct of Kings, Ministers, and Parliament.

With 'Clinton Cash,' we never really broke a story.

I happen to write a lot of stories that make Kissinger look bad. I'd rather that the stories weren't true, but they all happen to be true.

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

With obvious irony, many of the left-leaning privacy advocates who might cheer Apple's stand against the government's intrusion into its system, are now, as transparency advocates, on the side of the leakers of the Panama Papers.

If you're the president of a charity, you can't take the money out of the charity and use it to buy things for yourself. And you can't take the money out of the charity and use it to buy things for your business.

I love 'Frontline.' It's the best TV show in the history of television.

I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.

I don't think any of the journalists in 'Broadchurch' are villainous. I think they're all trying to do their jobs under difficult circumstances.