Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and 'spin' news to the president's advantage, while the media did its best to un-spin it.

What I don't like is talking points.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

The age of spin should be over.

Every successful president has suffered imputations that he has in sinister fashion charmed the press or used a new medium of communication (radio, television, the Internet) to claim an undeserved standing.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?

The media can make or break an administration.

[Ronald Reagan] turned the White House into a soft focus TV studio.

Pete Wilson was never more than the sum total of his focus groups.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

We’re going to sell Jack like soap flakes. There are no accidents in politics.

I have no more obligation to spin. When you’re in the White House, you spin.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

This is Capitol Hill where they never let facts get in the way of a good press release.

I do object to those who jump from political hackery to flackery and expect respect.

What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

During Ronald Reagan's administration, '60 Minutes' ran a segment about the difference between Reagan's rhetoric and Reagan's actions. The show thought it had produced a hard-hitting piece; Reagan's team called up '60 Minutes' to thank them for the 15-minute commercial.

No matter the candidate, every detail in a campaign is carefully and strategically framed for our consumption. The devil is in them.

Certain people in politics and the press felt there was a political spin to 'Cardiac Arrest,' but there was no political agenda to what I was doing.

I did love that scene in the movie [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"] because it's like "The Wizard of Oz." You see the backstage action of politics. You have access to see behind the curtain. You see how it's all one big advertisement.

Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.