Robert Kennedy Quotes

You know it's easy here to buy journalists.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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

What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

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.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

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.

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

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

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

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.

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.

What I do for a living is ask questions.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

Muck-raker

It is the business of the journalist … to stand in permanent Opposition.

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 best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.