Helen Suzman Quotes

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.

Great questions make great reporting.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

What I do for a living is ask questions.

You can’t report on something that you don’t know about.

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.

I have been asking if I'm an activist or a journalist. And my answer is very simple. I'm just a journalist who asks questions.

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

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

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

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.