List of Jayson Blair Quotes

I Am Immensely Contrite. And I'm Sorry For The Damage I've Done.

I Am Making Amends And Seeking Forgiveness. My Only Hope Is That Some Good Can Come Out Of My Situation.

Well The First Thing I'd Say Is That I'm Not Sure Exactly What I'm Supposed To Do To Show My Remorse Other Than To Say That I'm Remorseful.

Some People It Seems To Me Would Like For Me To Crawl In A Hole And Disappear Forever. That's Just Not In My Nature.

One Of My Weaknesses Happens To Be Lying, And I Could Tell You That I'm Never Going To Lie Again In My Life, But That Would Be A Lie.

Racism Built Me Into A Person That Was Set Up To Be Self-destructive.

It's Very Painful To Have Something That's Not True Written About You.

You Know I Am Done Lying. Obscuring The Truth Is No Longer Something I Have Any Interest In Doing. I Want It All To Come Out. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.

Once I Had A Better Beat, I Needed To Have An Even Better One. And Somewhere In That Climbing, I Lost Sight Of, Sort Of, My Moral And Ethical Underpinnings.

I Fooled Some Of The Most Brilliant People In Journalism.

People In The News Media After I Got Caught Said How Could You Have Not Caught This Guy? He Had 50 Corrections In Four Years. That's A Lot Of Corrections. Well What They Failed To Look At Is How Many Stories There Were And Out Of 700 Plus Stories, 50 Corrections Is Not A High Amount.

If They're All So Brilliant And I'm Such An Affirmative-action Hire, How Come They Didn't Catch Me?