Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

In politics, you don’t have to love the press; you don’t even have to like the press, but you sure as hell have to feed the press.

I go on all the channels, mostly CNN and MSNBC. I have gone on Fox every couple of months.

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

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

I only watch MSNBC for the news.

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

CNN's problem goes to its very core and to the identity it's sought ever since the rise of Fox News, on its right: CNN is the channel for people who don't want to watch the other channels! That's a stupid strategy.

Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993.

Everyone in politics turns to the press, if only to manipulate it or deflect it.

If you're in public life, a certain percentage of what you do must be done on television.

I did not see my job as Press Secretary as to help the press. My job was to help get Tony Brown and the Labour Party elected.

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

If Democrats don't go on Fox News, it doesn't mean that people stop watching.

Who's like Bill O'Reilly? If there was somebody like Bill O'Reilly, they'd be out there getting ratings. No matter how much the mainstream press dumps on him, the guy constantly delivers an interesting show. He's unique.

My stint as general manager of MSNBC made me particularly sensitive to how the big stories are covered.

Surely, AP or the coaches are all aware everybody has agendas. Anybody who's on TV has one. You know, that's viewership and ratings and those kinds of things.

I've been on MSNBC and CNN and Fox News. Not just Fox News, not just CNN.

I feel like the Left wants to destroy Fox News.

Chris Wallace is probably the most of an exception because his program, 'Fox News Sunday,' also airs on Fox broadcast stations. So he doesn't feel as many of the same ratings pressures to please the right wing audience versus all the rest of the programs.

Trump loves the media. Trump understands the power it has and, accordingly, loves the people who have media power.

What MSNBC is, what cable news prime time has become in the shows that get the ratings, is the oped page of the newspaper.