Valerie Trierweiler Quotes

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

The media has had its fun with me.

I've always had the media going against me every year.

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

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

Unfortunately with the media, the red tops, and all the celebrity weekly magazines, the ones who were once loyal - well, when I say loyal, this is a game; this is a game that we're in. If it's your time to get picked on, then you get picked on, and, you know, I'm used to that.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

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.

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

I believe, with the media, you must answer every question in some way. And in very, very, touchy situations, we must answer every question again and again.

Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity.

It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set of people andstart them to talking, while the ones who read the original charges will never see the refutation of them.

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

Controversies are a package deal in this industry. You just have to understand that and accept it.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

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

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

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

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.