16 Quotes by Howell Raines

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

I was assigned to write the color story in the stands and on the sidelines in the Alabama-Auburn game at Legion Field in 1964, ... My first byline was in the Post-Herald and it was about Bear Bryant. So that's about as good as gets in Alabama.

All Alabamians benefited from the vigorous political reporting in which the Post-Herald specialized for many years,

I know our institution has been damaged ... I accept my responsibility for that, and I intend to fix it,

For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia.

Fish in the water represent pure potential. If the water is not clear, we do not know if they exist at all. To get them to bite something connected to a line and pull them into our world is managing a birth that brings these creatures from the realm of mysytery into the world of reality. It is a kind of creation.

Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking.