Emily Maitlis Quotes

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

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

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

The next time a news outlet complains about the state of our political rhetoric or the uninformed U.S. voter, we should promptly point them to the video of Ashley Parker raucous in a Polish cemetery or Philip Rucker's diatribes on party invitations.

Here's one thing the media and all of us should learn: Trump is not wrong nearly as much as everybody says he's wrong.

While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

It's hard to listen to the news every day and have everyone saying you're the Antichrist.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

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.

Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

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

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

I think you should be able to have a press conference without having reporters key in on certain divisive issues.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.