Barbara Walters Quotes

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.

This is reporting the way I like it... in the field, gritty and aggressive.

How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?

Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues.

I am thrilled to be joining 'CBS News' and to have the opportunity to collaborate with some of our profession's most talented journalists.

The problem isn't getting your hands on a press pass - it's acquiring one of those wide-brimmed fedora hats in which to keep your press pass.

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.

I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.

I'm not a journalist, never pretend to be.

I think that my main business is as a news person.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

The key to being a good interviewer is to listen, no matter how heinous the act that person has committed, you have to listen to them and ask the right questions to get the truth out.

Basically, sometimes a reporter will ask a question, and I feel the answers only matter when the questions are relevant.

Interviewers, even the ones that support the person they're interviewing, have an obligation to probe further and push back when a candidate says something dangerous.

I think aggressive, sometimes outspoken reporting from the White House briefing room is expected by the American people.

Just ask my boss - any time a major story breaks, I'm banging on his door to send me.

Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.