Correspondent Quotes

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.

I mean the idea of this is that it`s a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it`s not really a CBS correspondent.

I think Nancy Kerrigan would be a fabulous Naked News correspondent.

When I came back to Washington to be The Times` chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field