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Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

Politics demands certain skills honed by experience, just as journalism does, just as acting does.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.