Press Quotes

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

I have sleepless nights before press days.

I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.

I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

I never used the press for anything except my charity.

People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.