Ken Livingstone Quotes

I don't want to be known as the guy who always takes his shirt off... I've done a lot of photo shoots lately for the press coming up with 'Immortals' and 'Breaking Dawn,' and every photographer wants to get the topless shot. We've really had to be choosy and not do that for every magazine. I've actually been trying to keep my clothes on more.

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

I couldn't stand people writing about me the way I write about politicians.

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

The media can make or break an administration.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

It is, because you've got a nice picture, you want to put it up, and then you're like, 'Do I want this to go out in the press? Do I want them to run it and make a story surrounding that picture?' That's what I have to think of all the time.

As soon as you make a mistake, you're killed by the press.

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

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

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 truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.

And certainly don't get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.