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“I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.”

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“The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.”

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Author:Joseph Alsop

“Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).”

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Book:Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer

Source: Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer

“A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.”

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Author:Sam Smith

“The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.”

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Author:George Clooney

“Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.”

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Author:Jonathan Alter

“The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.”

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Book:Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians

Source: Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians

“It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.”

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Author:Charles Barkley

“That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.”

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Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without fear of contradiction, that I knew Scott better than any other White House correspondent or Washington reporter.”

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Author:Jeff Gannon

“Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.”

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Author:Dorothy Kilgallen

“You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.”

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Author:John Oliver

“TV's Tony Snow becomes the White House press secretary. How will he make the difficult transition from Fox News reporter to Republican apologist? ... Mr. President, it is time to hire the folks who've never let you down. Limbaugh at Health and Human Services. Hannity at State. Then give Rummy the Medal of Freedom and install Bill O'Reilly as secretary of defense. Only problem, you might find yourself invading Vermont. And I'll replace Chertoff at Homeland Security. The man's done nothing to control the bear population.”

“More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation”

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Author:Holly Hunter

“I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.”

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Author:Joe Pantoliano

“Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?”

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Author:Jack Palance

“If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.”

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Author:David Walton

“A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.”

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Author:Diana Ross

“It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.”

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Author:Judy Woodruff

“Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.”

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Author:Eric Alterman

“I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly.”

Should Vote Reporters Always Believe

Author:Anderson Cooper

“By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.”

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Author:Dana Milbank

“Our reporters do not cover stories from their point of view. They are presenting them from nobodys point of view.”

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Author:Richard S. Salant

“I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.”

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Author:Frank Robinson

“I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?”

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Book:Crossing to Safety

Source: Crossing to Safety

“The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.”

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Author:Ed Koch

“My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."”

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Author:Thomas Pynchon

“Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.”

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Author:Fareed Zakaria

“The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair and it's not balanced. Truth stands by itself. And the idea that something called fair and balanced is a substitute for truth and fact is mindless nonsense that has captured much of the national media.”

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Author:Lou Dobbs

“In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.”

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Author:Elissa Schappell

“If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.”

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Author:Chester A. Arthur

“The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.”

“I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about.’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?”

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Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.”

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Author:Jeffery Deaver

“I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.”

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Author:Mark Cuban

“I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to.”

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Author:Michael Connelly

“I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner

“If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly.”

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Author:Mario Cuomo

“I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.”

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Author:David Simon

“We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals.”

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Author:Marty Natalegawa

“I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.”

Knows Reporters Ridicule Pundits

Author:Daniel Okrent

“I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.”

Dog Car Reporters Chasing

Author:Daniel Okrent

“The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.”

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Author:Alastair Campbell

“To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.”

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Author:Martin Cruz Smith

“I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.”

Years Asks Ask Me Reporters Best Year

Author:Sam Raimi

“I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.”

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Author:Auberon Waugh

“The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.”

Way Looks Politician Reporters

Author:H. L. Mencken

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