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It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent. -- Russell Baker
I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s. -- Rick Atkinson
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words. -- Alfred Day Hershey
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner. -- Robert Capa
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. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
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On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent. -- Anthony Shadid
I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent. -- Anthony Bourdain
Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country. -- Thomas Friedman
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. -- Henry Knox
Being a correspondent on 'The Daily Show' is some combination of doing a character and doing stand-up. It's a juggling act to find a balance between being you and playing a role. -- Kristen Schaal
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. -- Hugh Sidey
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. -- Christiane Amanpour
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. -- Robert Capa
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Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine. -- Mike Wallace
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. -- Oriana Fallaci
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. -- Russell Baker
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. -- Floyd Abrams
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. -- Tom Wolfe
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. -- Robert Capa
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative. -- Geraldine Brooks
Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted that I not identify myself as an NPR journalist. I asked them if they thought people did not know where I appeared on the air as a daily talk show host, national correspondent and news analyst. They refused to budge. -- Juan Williams
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There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement. -- Steve Carell
I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The mot juste unarriving? Tell that to your desk. -- Geraldine Brooks
There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent. -- Daniel Harvey Hill
There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent. -- Daniel Harvey Hill
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30. -- Jessica Savitch
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Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words. -- Alfred Day Hershey
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner." -- Robert Capa
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. -- Wilfred Burchett
I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.' -- David Douglas Duncan
Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things. -- Asne Seierstad
As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get. -- Asne Seierstad
The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing. -- Henry David Thoreau
I would like to expand my brand to include destinations in Vegas and also become an entertainment news correspondent. -- Holly Madison
The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Non-fiction about personal subjects is going to attract more user comments than a foreign correspondent writing from Syria - unfortunately. -- Meghan Daum
The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work. -- George MacDonald
Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it. -- Stephen Farrell
I started a trial period a couple of weeks ago as a correspondent for 'Extra,' and now it's become full time. -- Holly Madison
Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running. -- Epictetus
Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit. -- Joseph Addison
Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt to help them. -- Lubos Motl
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. -- Linda Vester
My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world. -- Janine di Giovanni
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. -- Adam Clymer
I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving. -- Mark Leibovich
A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: "You don't seem smart enough to be so good at what you're doing. Do you have an explanation?" -- Charlie Munger
NBC's a little jealous of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. They want to get a reporter with a macho-sounding name too, so they're changing Irving R. Levine's name to Scud Shrapnel. -- Johnny Carson
The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you, which is also sound advice today! -- Barrie Kerper
It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled. -- Auberon Waugh
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. -- Robert D. Kaplan
'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent. -- Samantha Power
Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich. -- Arthur Bryant
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. -- Christiane Amanpour
There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor. -- Agnes Repplier

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