Quotes About Press

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

I've been quite protected from the whole 'Lost' phenomenon because I'm not one of the core cast. So I haven't had to do the press junkets that they have.

We understand that there is a certain protocol. You have to do press in order to continue, and we understand that. It's not like I sit at home with a picture of some press guy shooting darts at him.

A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.

As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job — popularity. There are plenty of disadvantages I grant you, but you are liked and respected. Ring people up any hour of the day or night, butt into their houses uninvited make them answer a string of damn fool questions when they want to do something else — they like it. Always a smile and the best of everything for the gentlemen of the Press.

Second, the press, which has never been braver since, fought against martial law through covert resistance, or as the government called it 'deviant behaviour'.

You know the press and the TV. There are those who are favourites and those who are not. I was one of the latter.

I would never say, as a member of the press, that there should be fewer press briefings. The more access, the better, no matter who is there or what's going on.

All my fights with Cristiano were because of the press.

I did cameos in 'Karzzz' and 'Heroes' and I wanted people to write about it. But the press finds other things in my life more interesting.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

As both a First Amendment absolutist and as an American, I want to keep our government as far away from our press as possible.

There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.

To the best of my knowledge, I'm the first mom to hold the job of the White House Press Secretary.

I think it's incredibly important that we think about diversity in the context of the White House press corps, because it's important that the group of people there is representative of the diversity that we see throughout the country.

I'm really lucky to have colleagues in the White House press corps who are both amazing mothers and amazing journalists. Their collective wisdom has proven invaluable in my own journey.

Every major press organization works out of its own little space in the White House. Picture a mini cruise-ship cabin, or a row of four seats on an airplane: that's about all the space we have. You spend hundreds of hours inches away from your colleagues.

I think more than any point in history... part of the job of the White House press secretary is to rebuild trust with the American people.

We're never going to satisfy the White House press corps and their desires for access. And I think there have been mistakes made in the past of trying to do that.

There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people, have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press.