Quotes About Influence

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

A louder government with less journalism does not enrich our democratic process.

To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter.

My father was a journalist.

I remember everyone in high school thought I should be a journalist because I looked like Connie Chung.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.

'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be a journalist, and then it made me want to be a filmmaker.

I am greatly influenced by my father who was a journalist.

Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That's why we became journalists in the first place.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

You know it's easy here to buy journalists.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.

After working at the 'Guardian' for two decades, I feel I know instinctively why it exists. Most of our journalists and our readers do, too - it's something to do with holding power to account and upholding liberal values.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.