Oren Peli Quotes

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

I was asked to write a press briefing emphasizing the positive steps the administration had taken in the area and minimizing the negative ones. I was an Assistant to the President. I have done that for several Presidents. When you’re on the staff of the President of the United States you try and make things look as good as possible.

Talking to the press is not always good.

Sean Spicer has somehow been doing PR since 1999, which is 18 years. Somehow, after 18 years, his go-to move was denying the Holocaust.

The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.

Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

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

In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

I was never one to run away from trouble - I intend to continue to fight my corner and try to redeem our reputation in some way. It's very difficult when you see the PR campaign that Anglo have built up against us. A lot of the media would be very anti-Quinn and have fallen hook, line and sinker for the Anglo story where they are the good guys.

I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating.

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

Every organization has men and women who will be sure that the news gets out when it is good news. The problem is with the bad news. That is the challenge of democracy

When presidents are in trouble, there's two things they always do: reshuffle the staff and call in a bunch of reporters for advice.

Every politician higher up than assistant water commissioner knows how to avoid tough questions [from reporters]: Don't answer them.

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

Today being President is really no different than running for President. It’s about approval ratings and photo ops and damage control and deniability.

Other reasons for requiring press officers to review interview requests were to have an orderly flow of information out of a sprawling agency and to avoid surprises. This is not about any individual or any issue like global warming. It's about coordination.