Quotes About Integrity

Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on it. At least you have the choice.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

Journalists must work to earn the trust of those they aim to serve.

I don't go to journalists' houses and start dishing about anything private.

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.

I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.

I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.

There are far too many journalists who are in a rush to be first, instead of being right.

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.

As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don't think it's essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.

The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Let's judge a man on what he's done.