Daniel Craig Quotes

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

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?

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Journalists follow authority as sharks follow a liner, dining on the scraps that are thrown overboard.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

The job of media is the accountability of government.