Robert Scheer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.
-- Robert Scheer

#Book #Issues #Welfare Reform
Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.
-- Robert Scheer

#Groups #Appeals #Interest
I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.
-- Robert Scheer
I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.
-- Robert Scheer

#Jobs #Numbers #People
The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.
-- Robert Scheer

#Jobs #Lying #Media
He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor.
-- Robert Scheer

#Cities #Likes #Rooms
And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.
-- Robert Scheer

#Voice #Fire #People
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.
-- Robert Scheer

#Teaching #College #Usc
It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.
-- Robert Scheer

#Running #Strong #War
When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.
-- Robert Scheer

#Honest #Dean #Hung
We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.
-- Robert Scheer

#Media #People #Insulting
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
-- Robert Scheer

#Pants #Journalism #Investigative Journalism
The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I wrote. I assume that mostly refers to my exposing the lies used by President Bush to justify the invasion of Iraq. Fortunately 60 percent of Americans now get the point but only after tens of thousand of Americans and Iraqis have been killed and maimed as the carnage spirals out of control. My only regret is that my pen was not sharper and my words tougher.
-- Robert Scheer

#Regret #Lying #Iraq
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
-- Robert Scheer

#Paper #Prize

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