Greta Van Susteren Quotes

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

I hate negative ads in general.

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 A.M. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

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

The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Anyone who thinks that negative campaigning is a modern invention has never read the nineteenth century press

If a negative ad is run against you and you don't answer it, it becomes the truth.

[In a political contest,] the first guy who defines the other, wins

Democratic (campaign) commercials subjected American citizens to the most uncouth mental torture.

There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in '15.

The infamous political ads like Carly Fiorina's 'Demon Sheep' and Christine O'Donnell's 'I Am Not a Witch' are so confusing, it's almost like they were paid for by Democrats.

In a political campaign, you take your position; you stay strong with it. And the Clinton campaign put out tons of stuff that was not true about Donald Trump and who President Trump is.

One of the most overused phrases in political commentary is that someone is running a 'negative' campaign filled with 'attack' ads.

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

I think sometimes we underestimate just how vulnerable Israel is on the public-relations front. That's why they spend so much money on propaganda. And that's why they panic every time they feel like they're losing the propaganda war.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be a substitute for building much of a case for what the mudslinger will do once in office.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

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.

Among the calamities of war, may he justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.