Frances Stevenson Quotes

I don't talk about my personal life with the press.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

[Newspaper] editors print everything they possibly can in large capital letters.

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.

The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.

I could satisfy the French press any day, by saying that we entirely agreed with their view.

So many in the press turn gossip into gasoline and keep pouring it on the fire.

American newspapers disregard principles to seize on people, following them into their private lives and laying bare their weaknesses and their vices.

I must warn the French not to confuse the newspaper clamor with the voice of the English proletariat which, unfortunately for the two countries, Ireland and England, has no echo in the English press.

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.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

The Treaty includes no provision for the economic rehabilitation of Europe -- nothing to make the defeated Central Powers into good neighbors, nothing to stabilize the new States of Europe, nothing to reclaim Russia; nor does it promote in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the Allies themselves; no arrangement was reached at Paris for restoring the disordered finances of France and Italy, or to adjust the systems of the Old World and the New.

What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.

In spite of your “liberty of the press”, at a hint from your government your whole national press becomes unanimous on questions outside domestic politics.

A free press may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.

Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.

I'm not always going to like the paparazzi photos, but I'm still going to go to lunch with my boyfriend.

When I became majority leader in Washington, I was interviewed constantly. I was always happy to talk to the press, but I drew the line at the Sunday morning talk shows on television. After a full work week consisting of long days and frequent late evenings, I insisted on keeping my weekends free for my family and friends.

I don't talk about my personal life in the press; that's how I kept my wedding a secret.

I don't want to be followed by paparazzi; that terrifies me.

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