Journalist Quotes

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.
I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.
I do object to those who jump from political hackery to flackery and expect respect.
I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin.
I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens?
I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.
I have always been a left-winger and an outsider. I loved being that. I was perfectly cheerful with that role. Then suddenly, you're one of the talking heads on 'Nightline,' and you think you must have sold out.
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
I have known George W. Bush slightly since we were both in high school, and I studied him closely as governor. He is neither mean nor stupid. What we have here is a man shaped by three intertwining strands of Texas culture, combined with huge blinkers of class. The three Texas themes are religiosity, anti-intellectualism, and machismo.
I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened.
I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas.
I left the 'Trib' in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind.
I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.
I only aim at the powerful.
I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
I really do think we're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects at the editorial level, and it's all bad. This increased pressure for profits every quarter, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff - the extent that it's become one giant infotainment industry.
I really think the single most important thing to remember about trying to fix the schools is that there is no such thing as an instant result.
I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.
I spend most of my life feeling like I've been shot out of a cannon.
I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds.
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