Hasan Minhaj Quotes

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

I was asked to write a press briefing emphasizing the positive steps the administration had taken in the area and minimizing the negative ones. I was an Assistant to the President. I have done that for several Presidents. When you’re on the staff of the President of the United States you try and make things look as good as possible.

It was my job to get the skeletons out of the closet and into the press—which I did.

You guys simply have to back off. The truth will create a public disaster and undo everything we are trying to accomplish out here.

The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.

Some people do believe that any publicity is good publicly, but I don't. I would never want to be in news for rumours.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

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

Controversies are a package deal in this industry. You just have to understand that and accept it.

In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

Republicans have never been good at public relations.

I was never one to run away from trouble - I intend to continue to fight my corner and try to redeem our reputation in some way. It's very difficult when you see the PR campaign that Anglo have built up against us. A lot of the media would be very anti-Quinn and have fallen hook, line and sinker for the Anglo story where they are the good guys.

I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating.

There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

I was instructed let’s put out press releases touting advances and let’s minimize problems because we want the Department of Home Security to be a good news story…. But you have to tell the truth when you are in a job like this.

It sounds odd, but it's almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.

Negative press is always going to come out.

Most footballers are quite tense, aren't they? So many footballers have been stitched up over the years. They've got to mind what they say, be careful about this, careful about that, because something might be misconstrued, twisted around.

When issues emerge that might harm a campaign, like the Clinton e-mails, you have to get all the facts out right away, but not before you have all the facts.

One thing Donald Trump does, the minute something's out there about him that's not true, he blows it up. He reacts to it.

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.