Jon Ossoff Quotes

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama.

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.

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

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slinging accusations against successful financial executives. Preening press conferences and fawning media coverage are virtually guaranteed, whether or not the charges have substance.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

Democratic politics has always been rough.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

Fratricide dominates our public debate, and America is held hostage with tactics of smear and fear.

What draws the press is conflict, corruption and scandal.

You have a tendency to mix show with justice....You give a theater show to the press all over the world.

Scholars know that the processes of politics normally involve exaggeration, myth making and fierce animosities.

…Democrats are complaining that they can’t get their message out … because Donald Trump has blotted out the media sun. … The eclipse won’t end. The media has turned the Trump presidency into a phenomenon of constant self-absorption—their self-absorption in this one person. Donald Trump has become the biggest balloon in a political Macy’s parade of modern media’s own creation. They could let go of the ropes. But they won’t.

Politicians don't say no to cameras very often.

Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.