Matt Drudge Quotes & Sayings

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world. — 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

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

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings. — Matt Drudge

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider. — Matt Drudge

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me. — Matt Drudge

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

I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news. — Matt Drudge

I don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result. — Matt Drudge

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

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

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

The first step in good reporting is good snooping. — Matt Drudge

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

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

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles. — Matt Drudge

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

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?! — Matt Drudge

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

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

There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day, — Matt Drudge

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power. — Matt Drudge

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention. — Matt Drudge

The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem. — Matt Drudge

I cover media people the way they cover politicians. — Matt Drudge

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

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business. — Matt Drudge

Since Democrats vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties ... — Matt Drudge

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

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

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that? — Matt Drudge

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