Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

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.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

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

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this and all jobs in journalism have believed that.

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

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

Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.

Journalism has a check-and-balance effect to those in power, and those in power submitted themselves to it.

As reporters, we not only deliver the news of the day. We must also defend the truth. And just because we are pro-truth doesn't mean we are anti-Trump.

I have so much more compassion for journalists and the work that they have to do, in order to do the jobs that they have to do. I am much more in awe of and am celebratory of great journalism when I see it, and I'm much more critical of bad journalism, or crap masquerading as journalism.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

The role of the press and the protections which we afford it are today more important than ever before, because we dwell in a society where belief in our governments and in the strength of our institutions is declining.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

With a free press comes a responsibility.

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper.

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.