Quotes About Press

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

The PGA Championship, last of the majors each year, might well be accustomed to having fun poked at it by the print press for being mired in August, but this isn't fair.

I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism.

I'm doing TV interviews, I'm doing many, many print interviews.

I don't know why we said half the stuff that we did to journalists. It was almost as if we didn't think they were going to print it.

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.

I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

My private life was not very private in England.

We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.

Six months before the end of my mission, I was dogged by the press to give an answer about turning pro. They were extremely persistent.

The first interview I gave to the press was in 1987 when some people thought a previous machine at Cern, called LEP, might have enough energy to produce the particle.

We were doing press for this movie that my friends and I made for $5,000 called 'Brothers Justice,' that I also wrote and directed. And during the press of that, people kept saying, 'What's next, what's next?' And my best friend Nate and I - Nate produced it - we kept saying, 'Oh, we're gonna do a car-chase movie next.'

Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product.

As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.

I directed my first movie, not one piece of press!

A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.

Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press.