Margarita Simonyan Quotes

If you can point out anything in error, I’ll be glad to repudiate it for free.

When you make a mistake—a big mistake, you’re going to have to apologize—a lot!

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

When there's a pattern of mistakes, something has got to change.

Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

We regret mistakes were made.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

I regret the stories we didn't do - the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn't have all of, so didn't publish. The whole idea of Gawker was to remove the barrier between the thought and the talk - and the page.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification.

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.