Andy Coulson Quotes

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

I hate good press, and I abhor bad press.

Whether it's positive or negative press, it's all good. I do understand the game.

No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Parliamentarians certainly know how to do bad public relations.

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

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

I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.

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

In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.

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.

President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed president - his economy is bleak, his foreign policy bleaker, his vision for American even bleaker still. But he wins.

What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.

I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

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

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

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

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

I say this in the utmost affection ... he has passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

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