Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes

The media can make or break an administration.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

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

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

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

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

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 will say this: One thing I did see in my reporting again and again is that the Obamas themselves are much more involved in handling stories than is usually known.

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

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

I know certain techniques, such as a press release that looks like a newscast. So you use it because you want your man to win.

We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.

It’s always difficult for a President to explain his policies through the filter of the media and the crises of the day.

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

The healthy presidency is one that never lets the press hustle the President's priorities.

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

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

How can you govern if you always have to feed the news cycle?

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

Every successful president has suffered imputations that he has in sinister fashion charmed the press or used a new medium of communication (radio, television, the Internet) to claim an undeserved standing.

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

Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.