Matt Drudge Quotes

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

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

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

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

- Matt Drudge

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

- Matt Drudge

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

- Matt Drudge

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

- Matt Drudge

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

- 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

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

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

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

- Matt Drudge

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

- 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

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

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

- 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 don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result.

- 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

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

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

- Matt Drudge

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

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

- Matt Drudge