Jim Webb Quotes

If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

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

They have to put Trump on every program, spewing his crazy ideas, because his poll numbers are so high. And his poll numbers are so high because they put him on every program, spewing his crazy ideas.

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

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

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

Ah, I don't do interviews, really.

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.

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

I'm sure if I have plans, the Press will inform me.

Attacking lobbyists is a good lobbying technique.

Politics is a matter of communications.

Campaigns are not for educating. They're for linking up with the public mood.

You don't let the other side define the campaign.

It's not a very good idea to make an enemy of anyone who buys ink by the barrel.

... the persons who control the President's rhetoric exert an enormous influence over his actions and policies.

I was tempted to raise this issue in the Senate several weeks ago, but I decided that I would get more attention if I could get it printed in the papers.

Half of my job is to help build public support for the President’s agenda.

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.