Quotes About Press

The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead. Since news is what happens, not what doesn't happen, the denominator in the fraction corresponding to the true probability of an event—all the opportunities for the event to occur, including those in which it doesn't—is invisible, leaving us in the dark about how prevalent something really is.

I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody, I was taught to love and forgive, which I do have in my heart.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

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

"May I print a kiss on your lips?" I said, And she nodded her full permission: So we went to press and I rather guess We printed a full edition.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

No one is as cautious as an elderly mocker, especially when he knows how sensitive the local press and rotary club are.

I'm a receiver, so I know all the releases,. So it's hard to get me on any releases. And I'm 6-5, so I've got long arms and I can press and stay connected at all times. And the refs, sometimes you don't know if they're going to call holding or not, so I can get away with holds.

I feel like not all press is good press. Sometimes personal things can be released, and... that's not good press.

We released 'Mad World' as a single because we felt the music press would like it.

The media and press can be relentless, especially with women. Personally, while I take pride in my appearance and enjoy the compliments, when I'm on court, it is all about my game.

People can be quite cynical. 'The Kills are too cool.' There's been an on-and-off relationship with the music press that loves us and then hates us then loves us again. I don't think any kind of press is reliable.

The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation to press for Mr. Sterling to relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise.

I've been reluctant in doing press stuff - even my Instagram isn't properly managed; I manage it myself. It's kind of by design. I knew that would be what people see first.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

There are only a handful of politicians who are truly great on Twitter - the rest rely on their account to release press releases.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

I mean, to call the press the enemy is dangerous and just remarkably bizarre.

I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.

To those who cynically say today that liberal democracy would be 'obsolete,' I reply: liberal democracy, human rights, freedom of the press and the rule of law were the right way, are the right way, and will be the right way.

Pep Guardiola, when he was at Bayern Munich, he was able to reply in German in his first press conference.

The job of the press is to defend their institution, hold the government accountable and freely report and gather information.