Top 25 Matt Drudge Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The first step in good reporting is good snooping.”

— Matt Drudge

2. “There’s a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.”

— Matt Drudge

3. “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

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4. “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

5. “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

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6. “I never think too far into the future. I’m too busy thinking about tomorrow’s news.”

— Matt Drudge

7. “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

8. “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

9. “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

10. “You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.”

— Matt Drudge

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

— Matt Drudge

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

— Matt Drudge

13. “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

14. “There won’t be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn’t scare me.”

— Matt Drudge

15. “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

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

— Matt Drudge

17. “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

18. “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

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

— Matt Drudge

20. “I cover media people the way they cover politicians.”

— Matt Drudge

21. “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

22. “The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They’re working in tandem.”

— Matt Drudge

23. “Since Democrats vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties...”

— Matt Drudge

24. “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

25. “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

26. “Because I have success, it doesn’t mean I’m part of the mainstream. I’m still an outsider.”

— Matt Drudge

27. “I’ve written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.”

— Matt Drudge

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28. “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