Bob Beckel Quotes

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

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

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.

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

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

You guys simply have to back off. The truth will create a public disaster and undo everything we are trying to accomplish out here.

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.

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.

It sounds odd, but it's almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.

I find it so astonishing how poorly a lot of politicians handle negative whatever in the press. You have to just get it all out there. You have to be totally, uncomfortably honest.

Some people do believe that any publicity is good publicly, but I don't. I would never want to be in news for rumours.

Hillary Clinton ran the "Bimbo Eruptions Unit" with a woman named Betsey Wright. And in so doing, she preserved the Democrat Party, because she preserved the career of Bill Clinton.

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive.

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

I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

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

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?

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.

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

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

What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.