Robert Denniston Quotes

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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

Theodore Roosevelt owes more to newspapers than any other man of his time, or possibly of any other time.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

Does General Grant think I care what the newspapers say?

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and has stimulated the hope of instant results.

Burke said there were three estates in Parliament; but in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

Newspapers form public opinion, but public opinion also influences newspapers. The general masses are not like horses that can be tamed and trained to do their masters bidding.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

Negative press is always going to come out.

Most people don't actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

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

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

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

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

I don't talk about my personal life with the press.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.