Buffalo Bill Quotes

When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.'

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

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

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?

AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

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.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

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

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.

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

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

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.