Words matter. These are the best Washington Post Quotes from famous people such as Kara Swisher, Bert Lance, Bill Gates, Ronald Kessler, Pat Buchanan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the ‘Washington Post.’
I devised the Bert Lance Toe Test then – you go out on the front porch of the house, turn ‘The Washington Post’ over with your big toe, and if your name’s above the fold, you know you’re not going to have a good day.
When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn’t allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in – if they could, they would do so.
When ‘The Washington Post’ ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.
Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
Ever since I’ve become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.
Sally Jenkins of the ‘Washington Post’ is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 – in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam – that is probably the most important case.
I can’t remember a time when my mom didn’t work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don’t know. The source you didn’t go to. The phone call you didn’t return.
‘The Washington Post’ doesn’t have to report on what I post on Twitter. CNN doesn’t have to report on what I post on Twitter. All kinds of media outlets – they don’t have to report on anything that I post on Twitter. Just like they don’t have to report on all kinds of other things that other people post on Twitter.
By the time I joined the ‘Washington Post’ sports staff in 1979, Red’s Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.
It used to be that what was going to be written on my tombstone was ‘Benjamin Wittes, former ‘Washington Post’ editorial writer,’ or ‘Benjamin Wittes, who wasn’t even a lawyer.’ Now it’s just, like, ‘Benjamin Wittes, who’s a friend of Jim Comey’s.’
I’d actually argue that the best thing to happen to the ‘Washington Post’ was hiring Marty Baron, maybe the greatest newspaper editor of his generation.
If you’re not in ‘The Washington Post’ every day, you might as well not exist.
When in 1969 I became publisher of the ‘Washington Post’ as well as president of the company, my plate was fuller than ever. I had partly worked myself into the job but not, except for rare occasions, taken hold. I had acquired some sense of business but still relied on others more than most company presidents did.
It’s funny, you know: my mother-in-law, who doesn’t have an ounce of nerd in her, is just so excited by the fact that I write ‘Batman’ because she’ll see an article about me in the ‘Washington Post’ or ‘The Wall Street Journal’ or something. And that means so much to me.
Some years ago, I was fortunate enough to land a reporting job at ‘The Washington Post,’ which pretty much put me in a state of constant awe. Bob Woodward would dish up ice cream sundaes for anyone stuck working on the weekend.
I love the op-ed pages of the ‘L.A. Times,’ the ‘Washington Post’ and the ‘New York Times.’ There’s just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.
I don’t think for one second anyone believes the ‘Washington Post’ and ‘New York Times’ are anything but aggressively against Trump.
The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when ‘The Washington Post’ suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.
I read ‘The Washington Post’ every day from a very young age. Reading the newspaper taught me how to organize my thoughts on the page. Meaning, it taught me how to write.
I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I’d won the Pulitzer Prize.
Two opposite and instructive figures in U.S. journalism during the Trump years are Gerard Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal, and Martin Baron, editor of the Washington Post.
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: ‘Duh.’
I started to write about science and medicine at the ‘Washington Post,’ in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
Jason Rezaian, held for 544 days in Iran, was not a spy but rather a ‘Washington Post’ journalist whose work aimed to increase cultural understanding between Iran and the world.
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
