Quotes from Matt Drudge

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

I live in a world that's free, colorful, vibrant, takes chances, bold, stands up to power, umm, and that's where I've mad my success.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

I don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result.

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

The reality of the situation is life on Earth has not changed. We need facts, we need events, we need specifics on things.

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.

All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.

Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.