Claire Fox Quotes

The media can make or break an administration.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

The media cause more problems than they do good.

The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.

American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media.

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

Burke said there were three estates in Parliament; but in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

No matter what was written or what was charged, the harmful effect was largely washed away as soon as the reassuring voice of the President of the United States started coming through the ether into the family living-room.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

No one today in Washington doubts the superior firepower of the media over that of the executive branch.

Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

Many parts of the media have created the situation where uninteresting fashion can thrive.

It's the media who love statistics.

Politicians used to be able to change the subject. With television they cannot do that any more.

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

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

Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras....

The government bodies known to you have presented me a resignation demand. Taking into account that the execution of the constitutional power of the president in the situation that has been created could pose serious danger to the stability of the country, I accept that demand and announce my resignation.

The media coverers Rush Limbaugh as if he were the king of the Republican Party. The truth of the matter is that he can’t deliver a pizza let alone a vote.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...