Sarah Fritz Quotes

The media can make or break an administration.

The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

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

Congressional power has not so much been usurped by the Presidency as given up to the Presidency by Congress.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Not many governments are reelected in Canada, against an adversarially hostile media, even when it's a government which has been as productive as yours. ... their power in Canada is as infuriating as it is real.

The powers that are surrendered [by Congress] to one President remain to be used by others.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

The President of the United States will not stand and be questioned like a chicken thief by men whose names he does not even know.

I've just been elected and right now we'll have a honeymoon with Congress... I'll have a good chance to get my program through.... But after I make my recommendations, I'm going to lose the power and authority I have because that's what happened to President Woodrow Wilson, to President Roosevelt and to Truman and to Kennedy. Every day that I'm in office ... I'll be losing part of my ability to be influential.... So I want you guys to get off your asses and do everything possible to get ... my program passed as soon as possible, before the aura and halo that surround me disappear.

The healthy presidency is one that never lets the press hustle the President's priorities.

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

Acting upon everybody for 30 minutes in 24 hours, the press is asked to create a mystical force called Public Opinion that will take up the slack in public institutions. The press has often mistakenly pretended that it could do just that.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

The concentration of power in the Presidency—in the White House—only grows over time.

No one today in Washington doubts the superior firepower of the media over that of the executive branch.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

... infiltrate and neutralize the mainstream American media.

The bias of the media is neither liberal nor conservative but negative.