Michael Hastings Quotes

If the press doesn’t get the proper care and feeding, you don’t get the proper spin on your story.

I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

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

I get along fine with the press.

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

I'm sure if I have plans, the Press will inform me.

Our job [White House press secretaries] is to serve the interest of the President while recognizing the interests of the press.

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 …

It was my job to get the skeletons out of the closet and into the press—which I did.

Theodore Roosevelt owes more to newspapers than any other man of his time, or possibly of any other time.

Talking to the press is not always good.

You speak to the press at the Tour every day, but most often in a negative sense. Ninety per cent of the questions you are asked in the post-race press conferences are challenging or provocative, so you have to justify yourself; you have to try to give the right answers about every topic across the board.

A race without journalists also has one advantage for Max: he does not have to give so many interviews.

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

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

People ought to quit talking to the press.