Best Correspondent Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Peter is often our White House correspondent, standing on the North Lawn, talking about the President... but of course as his dad, I see a professional journalist, who as it turns out, used to mow my lawn.”

“I did think that it'd be truly cool to be a foreign correspondent, and it was. There is a degree of freedom - and the right to roam the earth on somebody else's nickel.”

“People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.”

“I started a trial period a couple of weeks ago as a correspondent for 'Extra,' and now it's become full time.”

“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 started at 'The Daily Telegraph' as a daily news reporter. I moved then to 'The Guardian,' and then I moved to New York as the correspondent for 'The Guardian,' moved to 'The Times of London.' And really, it was the best job you could imagine. You could cover any story you wanted in America.”

“Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.”

“My dad originally wanted to be a foreign correspondent before he got into politics. We have very similar personalities, so I think I get a lot of that interest from him.”

“I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.”

“I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'”

“The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.”

“It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.”

“And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.”

“I began college during the Iraq War and initially wanted to be a foreign correspondent.”

“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.”

“In 1993, I joined Reuters as a correspondent in its Cairo bureau.”

“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.”

“Working as a correspondent for 'Business Week,' I felt that I was simply informing people, not empowering them. I saw a parallel problem in the world of education. In too many educational settings, teachers simply 'inform' or 'instruct' learners, rather than providing learners with opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.”

“When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.”

“I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward.”

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

“When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.”

“Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.”