Ryan Holiday Quotes

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

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

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

The media can make or break an administration.

I know politics; I know the media.

Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama.

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.

We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.

It’s always difficult for a President to explain his policies through the filter of the media and the crises of the day.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

Politicians generally don’t volunteer for press encounters they can’t control.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

Misunderstanding is the great enemy of every White House press secretary.

The relationship between the press and the president is always inherently bad; it's never good.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

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.

There is no lie too improbable, no distortion too great, no smear campaign too dirty for the State Department and the media to embrace.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

Pundits, media companies and politicians have discovered that it is emotion, not reason, that wins votes and pulls in eyeballs. It’s fun and lucrative while it lasts, but the Greeks and Romans can tell you precisely what it does to a civilization in the long run.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.