Alma Guillermoprieto Quotations

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an invaluable contribution not only to journalism, but to society and to a healthy democracy

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.