Thomas Pynchon Quotes

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.

I don't read magazine articles that I've been in.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

I never talk to tabloids.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

I have been in office for many years, and let me tell you, many times I have hated what the press has said about me.

I view myself as having an adversarial approach to the media.

I haven't talked to the press much. That's why I've gotten kind of a bad reputation. They look at me and think I don't give a damn. But I'm not comfortable with the attention.

We've always been slammed by most of the British press. They probably hate us because we're too normal and incredibly honest.

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw in character.

Politicians generally don’t volunteer for press encounters they can’t control.

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

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

Hostility is the natural state of affairs between the White House and the Media

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...

Abraham Lincoln worked hard at being inscrutable. The tones, the gestures, the kindling eye, and the mirth-provoking look defy the reporter's skill.

I was very protective of my privacy. I didn't want people to write bad things about me that weren't true, because that's just not fair. Fifty percent of everything written about me is wrong.

One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.