Michael Grimm Quotes

I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

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

I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.

I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films.

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

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.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

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

People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.

Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them to come out and face the cameras with confidence, but if they do, it will only help them. They will find themselves closer to their fans and will also get their word across more effectively.

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

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'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.

You can never get your message across if you're always answering their [reporter's] questions.

You can take a position with the media, but don’t necessarily get in their face.

In politics, you don’t have to love the press; you don’t even have to like the press, but you sure as hell have to feed the press.

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.