Robert MacNeil Quotes

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

When I was Under-Secretary, I never got quoted at all. Now everything I say gets noted and printed.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

The media can make or break an administration.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

Obviously, as somebody who is famous, I have a particular responsibility

I think celebrity is taking a heavy shot because of reality TV and the rise of Mr. Trump. I think people are becoming a little more leery, assuming that being a celebrated individual means you have some gravitas.

At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

The paparazzi and the press have given me a voice. No matter how I got the voice, it's there.

What's been interesting is that the more famous the person is, the less they seem to care if I talk about them.

I read about myself in the papers all the time.

I hate controversies and want to be in the news for the right reasons.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.

Fame looks like a really hairy affair. But if it's part of the job, I'll figure out a way to deal with it.

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.

Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.