Quotes About Press

I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

I'm not really a money-oriented person. The press always write that I am. They don't seem to want to understand that I love the comfort of Japan and love the fact it's more peaceful, less frenzied than Hong Kong.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.

I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.

The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated with the world. And I believe in equality of opportunity. Those are my basic beliefs. On top of that, of course, I believe in some moral values.

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time.

I never really got any attention until I was on MTV. I became a household name because I was on every day from 3-4 P.M. I wasn't prepared for it - how mean they can be in the press.

There's no way I could ring up a company that was lending me a red-carpet dress and say, 'Do you have it in a 10?' Because all the press samples are an 8 - I would say a 'small 8.'

No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a situation of 'follow in my footsteps.'

The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with criticism.

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

If I'm the MVP of the NFL, and I lose a game and go to a press conference and walk out of it, that's not the example I want to set for people.

You never know when you might get scrambled to an impromptu press conference.

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.