Matt Drudge Quotes

"Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Drinks)

"Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Gossip)

"Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Beginning, Gossip, Months, News)

"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Business, Movies, Internet, News, Television)

"The first step in good reporting is good snooping."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: First)

"The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Internet, Press)

"The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Government, Power, Media)

"There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Attention, Danger, Internet, Ugly)

"We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be."
- Matt Drudge

"With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Brother, Man, World)

"You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows."
- Matt Drudge

"I'm not mean."
- Matt Drudge

"It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Effort, Losing)

"There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Editors, Future, Internet, World)

"I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Family, Publishing, Right, Schools)

"A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Attention, Will)

"All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned."
- Matt Drudge

"If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?"
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Technology, Freedom, Liberty, Want)

"I cover media people the way they cover politicians."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: People, Media, Politicians)

"If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?"
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Day, First, Lady, Internet, News)

"I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Business, Freedom, Internet, Talking, Want)

"I don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Result)

"I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Freedom, Future, Participation, Reason)

"I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: People, Communication, Conscience, Future)

"I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Future, News, Thinking, Tomorrow)

"I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Want)

"I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Death, First, Lady, Makeup, News)

"Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Success)

"I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: News)