John Podhoretz Quotes

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama.

Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?

Our opponents struggled manfully, desperately; but wind and tide were against them. They had campaign and other papers, good speakers, and large meetings; but we were far ahead of them in singing and electioneering emblems and mottoes which appealed to popular sympathies.

People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.

Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.

I'm running against a woman who's got David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel running her campaign.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

If you would know the depth of meanness of human nature, you have got to be a prime minister running for a general election.

I did not see my job as Press Secretary as to help the press. My job was to help get Tony Brown and the Labour Party elected.

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

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

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.

…Democrats are complaining that they can’t get their message out … because Donald Trump has blotted out the media sun. … The eclipse won’t end. The media has turned the Trump presidency into a phenomenon of constant self-absorption—their self-absorption in this one person. Donald Trump has become the biggest balloon in a political Macy’s parade of modern media’s own creation. They could let go of the ropes. But they won’t.

Let's remember that Bruce Rauner has every interest in getting stories out there that hurt Democrats.

Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.

The dirty little secret the media doesn't want to admit is that Trump generates such good content that they can't help covering him even when they hate him.

One thing that is fairly undeniable about Trump - love him or loathe him - is his understanding of how to manipulate the media and to perpetuate a symbiotic relationship with the press.

It's the media who love statistics.

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

The media likes me because I give honest answers. How many people in football give honest answers? I don't lie. Always the truth. OK, maybe my truth. But it is the truth.