Press Quotes

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise.

The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal.

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.

At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.