Ben Bradlee Quotes

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'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.

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

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.

Theodore Roosevelt owes more to newspapers than any other man of his time, or possibly of any other time.

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

Hillary [Clinton] has been very guarded with the press.

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

I'm obsessed with how the press handles Donald Trump and how Trump handles the press.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

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

I get along fine with the press.

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.

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

Our job [White House press secretaries] is to serve the interest of the President while recognizing the interests of the press.

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

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

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.

President Obama was not friendly to the press, but the press was very friendly to President Obama.

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.