Charles Colson Quotes

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

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

You can take a position with the media, but don’t necessarily get in their face.

My New Year's resolution is to make sure I genuflect appropriately before the Chicago media on everything I do.

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

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

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

I did not see my job as Press Secretary as to help the press. My job was to help get Tony Brown and the Labour Party elected.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

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 …

Hostility is the natural state of affairs between the White House and the Media

Every successful president has suffered imputations that he has in sinister fashion charmed the press or used a new medium of communication (radio, television, the Internet) to claim an undeserved standing.

I talk to the press five days a week … The president—how often does he talk to the press? His press secretary talks to the press every day, okay. But I happen to think the public should demand he should. I think he should; I think that’s his job.

I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

People ought to quit talking to the press.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

... infiltrate and neutralize the mainstream American media.

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.