Donald Trump Quotes

Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.

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

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

If politicians are good copy, I like them. If not, I don’t care about them.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

I would say that my whole career is effectively trying to be a storyteller within the context of financial news.

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

The media can be challenging, but at the same time, without the media, I would not have been able to share my personal story. Often the media can bring beauty and encouragement to people's lives...

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.

90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.

In all my years I don't think I've ever said anything nice about Dusty Rhodes to any member of the media.

It is, because you've got a nice picture, you want to put it up, and then you're like, 'Do I want this to go out in the press? Do I want them to run it and make a story surrounding that picture?' That's what I have to think of all the time.

We've been slighted in the press for being heartfelt.

I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, before moving on to CNBC and NBC.

Trump is somebody who sees the media as basically his main constituency. So much of his self-worth and his image and his view of what the presidency should be about is the media and how he is reflected in the media.

At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

One thing that is fairly undeniable about Trump - love him or loathe him - is his understanding of how to manipulate the media and to perpetuate a symbiotic relationship with the press.

The story of my life publicly has been told through 'Alternative Press.' Former employees, people who have worked there - my friend Ryan Downey, who wrote for 'AP' for a long time - I've been able to have really great articles written about me and talk openly about things in my life.

I can't be happy if I want to because the media won't let me be. They keep propagating a tacky image of mine. They even make my charity work look like a publicity stunt.

People perceive actresses in a different manner when they are portrayed glamorously. I don't want that to happen with me.