Sean Quinn Quotes

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

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

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

Negative press is always going to come out.

Parliamentarians certainly know how to do bad public relations.

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

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

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

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

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

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 media can make or break an administration.

Every administration I remember has tried to control its message and manage contacts with the media. As a senior editor for more than a quarter century, I frequently received complaints from administrations of both parties about coverage they considered unfavorable, along with occasional and mostly empty threats to cut off access.

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.

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.

I believe, with the media, you must answer every question in some way. And in very, very, touchy situations, we must answer every question again and again.

Talking to the press is not always good.

Sean Spicer has somehow been doing PR since 1999, which is 18 years. Somehow, after 18 years, his go-to move was denying the Holocaust.

The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.