Bill Scott Quotes

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.

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and had remarkable success.

You will never see United manager Sir Alex Ferguson in the media taking problems he has or the squad has or the club has into the open. Never, ever. But you do see that at Manchester City.

Trump loves the media. Trump understands the power it has and, accordingly, loves the people who have media power.

Relationships are the key element to Press & PR

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

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

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.

What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.

In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if you're just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.