Charlie Rose Quotes

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

There are a lot of reporters who I feel are a lot more courageous and fool-hardy than I am. Maybe at the top I'd put Dexter Filkins. He's an extraordinary man in terms of his nerve and ability to get into dangerous situations and tell the story cogently. He's bringing back real human stories. I admire that.

I love Orla Guerin - she's my queen... when I watch her on the news, I just can't believe how brave she is.

Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.

I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house.

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.

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

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

Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues.

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

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 is just the art of capturing behavior.

... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen.

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.