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As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.

I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.