Christabel Pankhurst Quotes

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

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

A President has to do the image stuff that will help him so that he can do the substantive things he wants to do.

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

A dozen men in good suits and women in silk dresses will circulate smoothly among the reporters, spouting confident opinions. They won't be just press agents trying to impart a favorable spin to a routine release. They'll be the Spin Doctors, senior advisers to the candidates

I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

Republicans have never been good at public relations.

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

Politics is the business of managing perceptions.

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

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

It’s not only what you do in politics. It’s what you appear to do.

There are two things that you should never do in front of the TV cameras. You should not make love and you should not make peace.

As an actor, you can't just be in the film. You're also in charge of selling it, and so you have to sell yourself, and you have to be very political and make sure to not say the wrong things. It's exhausting.

As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixing character negatives.

I'm not a politician; I don't have a well-organised PR machine to craft my every word.

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.

If you have to release bad news to the public, it would help if you are not ugly.

Donald Trump is not intimidated by the media, and he's not frightened by them, and in fact he loves toying with them. You know, while they're sitting there wringing their hands and taking things so seriously and it's the end of the world, Trump is laughing and having the greatest time.

I could be rude [with the media]. I could pull some of the [Bill] Parcells stuff, but I couldn’t get away with it. I wasn’t Parcells. They make light of it, but they’re not making light of it with me.

I've never been able to control my public image.