Quotes About Reporting

I became a qualified machinist at Vauxhall. For some reason it's been erroneously reported that I used to screw on hubcaps, but that's not true. You can't screw on a hubcap, anyway, so I have no idea where that came from.

'The Xpose' was just an experiment, a small step into Bollywood. It wasn't my acting debut, as reported in Mumbai. I've done a couple of Punjabi films.

I know so much about Los Angeles. I grew up here, I was born here, I loved it, and I reported on it.

Yes, we know that obesity is an issue, but it isn't the end of the world as is reported everywhere.

As the president's principal intelligence advisor, I would ensure that all intelligence is collected analyzed and reported without bias, prejudice or political influence.

Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

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.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

I'm a passionate man and a passionate reporter. I've also got a loud voice.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I'm a reporter - if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.

Everybody has an iPhone; everyone can be a reporter now. Everybody can tell a story from every part of the world. Why places like CNN matter is that it is still important to bring them together, put context around it, and explain it.