Quotes About Public

At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

The press is the enemy.

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.

Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

I'm really not comfortable doing interviews in a group, in press conferences. One-on-one, I'm all right, but those press conferences at the All-Star Game, I just don't... I feel better when I'm by myself.

And certainly don't get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.

I get along fine with the press.

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

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

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

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

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

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

The only way we are going to ameliorate pressing social needs is through public intervention.

Being an actress is a hard job. There is this pressure of looking good all the time.

Celebrities are under pressure to perform all the time. You are in front of a camera all the time, and it is difficult to lead a life in the world of glamour.

There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties.

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.