Carol Moseley Braun Quotes

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and had remarkable success.

If the press doesn’t get the proper care and feeding, you don’t get the proper spin on your story.

I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

I get along fine with the press.

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

You can take a position with the media, but don’t necessarily get in their face.

Talking to the press is not always good.

The people who are afraid of talking to press are people who have something to hide.

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

People ought to quit talking to the press.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.