Quotes About Engagement

Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better.

There should be no doubt about my commitment to responding to questions from reporters in the same language that the question is asked.

I've always been a guy who didn't mind speaking to reporters.

When you're trying to come up with a good approach to reporting on the bleeding edge of where the conversation's moving, you're just leaving a lot of people who aren't on the bleeding edge of that conversation out.

I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.

The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a way to get there, the story, the reporting, it's the easiest you'll ever do. 'Cause the drama's everywhere.

I don't see the value of boringly reporting the cold facts.

I will say this: One thing I did see in my reporting again and again is that the Obamas themselves are much more involved in handling stories than is usually known.

Basically, what I want to share with the Jacksonville fans is, here I am, reporting for duty and ready to serve the fans. Let the fun begin.

I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on.

If you can't build a relationship with your customers, you're in big trouble. If you can remember the numbers from the reports and spreadsheets you spent hours poring over in your office, but you can't picture the faces of your customers - you're in big trouble.

I'll often order a cortado and stand there quizzing the poor barista about the extraction time, how much pressure they are applying and how many grams are in it. I am that guy. It's reprehensible to the max, but it's how I go through my life.

Government officials should recognize that the files in front of them represent very important issues in the lives of people.

We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.

I look forward to continuing to represent the people I'm currently serving, as well as the new communities that will be a part of this district in the future.

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

If a thing is going to represent you, your vision, you should be involved in every aspect of that thing. I like my role as executive producer on anything probably as much as performer.

The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.

In the district I represent, I have to talk to everybody.

The real issue is, are you available to the folks you represent? And I am.

In order to represent the state, you've got to be in the state.

A lot of guys try to stay out of the political limelight because you have things like endorsements; you have fans and all these other things that you represent.

It's my job to represent the concerns and address the concerns my constituents have, and those concerns change over time.