Jim Acosta Quotes

Hostility is the natural state of affairs between the White House and the Media

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.

There is a permanent war between journalists and the political classes.

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

President Donald J Trump and the U.S. media appear now to be split by deep doctrinal differences - of the constitutional crisis kind. But, virtually up until the split, Trump and the media were as one - a perfect symbiosis.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Every President hates the Press.

We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

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

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

I'm sure if I have plans, the Press will inform me.

Because he drives Lyndon Johnson crazy

When you went to work in the morning you were going to war with the press.

Donald Rumsfeld and Nelson Rockefeller were put on this planet to piss each other off.

How drab people are, especially from the press.

I have been in office for many years, and let me tell you, many times I have hated what the press has said about me.

I view myself as having an adversarial approach to the media.

Yes, Barack Obama had his clashes with the press. I witnessed those first-hand covering the second term of his administration. But we did not have Barack Obama on almost a weekly basis referring to the press as the enemy of the people and accusing reporters of treason and calling legitimate stories fake news.

I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.