Quotes by 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
• The first step in good reporting is good snooping.
• The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.
• The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
• There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
• 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.
• With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.
• You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.
• I'm not mean.
• It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.
• There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
• 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.
• 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.
• All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.
• If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
• I cover media people the way they cover 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?
• 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.
• I don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a 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.
• 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.
• I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.
• I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.
• I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.
• Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
• I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.