Quotes About Truth

There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong.

The one report I will believe will be the report of Robert Mueller. He's a totally impartial law enforcement investigator who will come to the truth, whether it was collusion or it wasn't collusion. But when a partisan group puts together a report, it doesn't really hold much credibility for me.

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

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

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

My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

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.

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things - especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa.

I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.

As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put them in the newspaper. But they're good stories, and I would jot them down thinking maybe one day I could write that as a short story.

I'm not a war reporter.

I'm just a reporter.

I tell the truth. That's my training as a reporter.

I think that there's become a very clickbait mentality among a lot of reporters, where they're more interested in their clip or their click than they are about the truth and the facts.

Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.