Anthony Holden Quotes

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

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.

I have been in office for many years, and let me tell you, many times I have hated what the press has said about me.

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.

Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

I couldn't stand people writing about me the way I write about politicians.

The media can make or break an administration.

Heavy media attention legitimates anything …

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

You would think that people who are so powerful would not be so upset by little knocks in the press.

I devised the Bert Lance Toe Test then - you go out on the front porch of the house, turn 'The Washington Post' over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.