Harvey Weinstein Quotes

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

When my editors and I at 'Rolling Stone' came up with the idea to do a profile of General McChrystal, I simply just e-mailed General McChrystal's press staff, said we wanted to do a profile, and said if you could give us any time to hang out with the general, that would be great.

My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'

Regis has a great rapport with the American public.

I would love to interview Sean Spicer.

The other day John McCain appeared on the show 'The View,' and one of the hosts accused McCain of being a liar. Yeah, she may have a point, because McCain started the interview by saying, 'Ladies, you look beautiful.'

The first lady said about her husband, 'I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures.' And today she was offered her own show on Fox News.

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

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

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved—commitment to a scenario.

Politics is the business of managing perceptions.

My New Year's resolution is to make sure I genuflect appropriately before the Chicago media on everything I do.

Politics. Where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be a candidate themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Today being President is really no different than running for President. It’s about approval ratings and photo ops and damage control and deniability.

Sometimes heads of state have to make statements for [local] public consumption.

You can't be a public affairs specialist if you're actually working on the public's affairs.

If you're in public life, a certain percentage of what you do must be done on television.

I have no more obligation to spin. When you’re in the White House, you spin.

I was asked to write a press briefing emphasizing the positive steps the administration had taken in the area and minimizing the negative ones. I was an Assistant to the President. I have done that for several Presidents. When you’re on the staff of the President of the United States you try and make things look as good as possible.

It is so important – the setting in which the President is presented to the world.

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is

I will say this: One thing I did see in my reporting again and again is that the Obamas themselves are much more involved in handling stories than is usually known.

I want you to hear me tonight, I am not saying that President Obama is the Antichrist. I am not saying that at all. One reason I know he's not the Antichrist is the Antichrist is going to have much higher poll numbers when he comes.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.