Louis van Gaal Quotes

Trump is somebody who sees the media as basically his main constituency. So much of his self-worth and his image and his view of what the presidency should be about is the media and how he is reflected in the media.

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

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

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

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

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 don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

People believed what I said was what I believed.

I know certain techniques, such as a press release that looks like a newscast. So you use it because you want your man to win.

We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.

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

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.

Nothing is so tantalizing to journalists as some answer they can't get. If you want to appeal to political journalists,…you hide something from us …

Every successful president has suffered imputations that he has in sinister fashion charmed the press or used a new medium of communication (radio, television, the Internet) to claim an undeserved standing.

I've been very honest with the press. The only thing I have ever had done is my nose.

Politicians don't say no to cameras very often.

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

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.

I would want like Leonardo Dicaprio's dirt, because he doesn't have any out there. We never see any bad press about him.

Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection. You say what you have to say in the way you have to say it to give it media currency - and that's always far from the truth. Often, in fact, someone else says it for you. It's all planned. It's all rehearsed.

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

The media has had its fun with me.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.