David Brooks Quotes

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

You can be involved in media, and you can be involved in all the handbag hurling that goes along with it, and it's a different world.

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

The Seahawks, their front office gets in the media; they talk a lot.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!

All my fights with Cristiano were because of the press.

Donald Trump is a divisive name in a locker room.

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

The one thing that always sucks about me is that I'm just a fighter, and I just love to fight.

Anything with Tito Ortiz's name on it will always involve a bit of controversy.

There is a narrative of 'Washington fighting' because it's interesting and it's drama.

I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people.

In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.

I'm doing all these interviews with the British press, the Italian press, and others. They all want to talk about this stuff. I don't have a stance; I don't have a go-to thing to say about any of this.

The media loves to spend a lot of time talking about itself and do a lot of navel-gazing, which the general public isn't quite that interested in. They aren't really particularly concerned with whether our feelings are hurt or the things that we complain about. They have their own lives and their own jobs that are difficult as well. I think where the media has gotten itself in trouble is the sense that they're much more interested in things like parsing words and getting into fights about little minutia, as opposed to stepping back and seeing what the big picture is.

I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence.

Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.

I'm obsessed with how the press handles Donald Trump and how Trump handles the press.

I was angry. I was kind of looking for a fight. I didn't want to talk to you guys in the press, because initially, understandably, all they wanted to talk to me about was, you know, what does it feel like?

Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.

I've noticed since I've been out is Eddie Hearn and this fight gives me an opportunity to shut him up.