#porter

I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#being #cadre #cops #date #enforcement

In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.' ↗

— J. C. Watts

#based #because #being #clinton #consider

In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#reporters #death

If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it. ↗

— Gayle Gardner

#hard #reporter #says #someone #then

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#estate #fourth #gallery #realm #reporters

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#country #credible #done #fantastic #folk

What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#care #crazy #discredit #give #going

I used to get letters from girl reporters saying that their lives were nowhere near as exciting as Brenda's. I told them that if I made Brenda's life like theirs, nobody would read it. ↗

— Dale Messick

#exciting #get #girl #i #letters

Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters. ↗

— Marc Morial

#basically #because #city #close #done

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#except #had #i #movement #rights