Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.

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

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

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

How can you govern if you always have to feed the news cycle?

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.

I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

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.

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

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.

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

I know certain techniques, such as a press release that looks like a newscast. So you use it because you want your man to win.

Does General Grant think I care what the newspapers say?

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and had remarkable success.

President Bush talks to the people in the press room as if they are idiots because that is the way the issues have been explained to him.

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

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