Andrea Mitchell Quotes

It's difficult to be the spokesperson for something that internally is falling apart. That's a tremendous amount of pressure to put on one person, to be the guy who gives all the quotes, all the interviews.

There were tactical decisions that I wish I could have done differently: mission accomplished, not revealing my drunken driving charge prior to my run for the presidency, flying over New Orleans on Katrina and the pictures being released and people saying, "he's aloof and doesn't really care."

I've seen lawyers who don't represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with dreadful allegations just as another project, an album, a video is being released.

I've never been able to control my public image.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

I have done a lot to rehabilitate my reputation.

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

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

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.

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

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.

I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.

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

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

If you're in public life, a certain percentage of what you do must be done on television.

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.