Prince Philip Quotes

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

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 wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

My contempt for the instruments of public information—particularly the press, is unlimited ...

The political misrepresentation of facts is one of the incidents of a free press in every free country.

While they shriek for "freedom of the press" when there is no slightest threat to that freedom, they deny to citizens that freedom from the press to which the decencies of life entitle them. They misrepresent, they distort, they color, they blackguard, they lie.

As a rule I don't care a damn what any crooked newspaperman says about me, because they're mostly goddamn liars.

...the liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception.

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

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

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.