Maureen Dowd Quotes

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

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

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

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.

People ought to quit talking to the press.

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

I've had high-powered publicists in my career, and I've had publicists when they've had no power. I've run the gamut.

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.

I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute.

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.

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

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.

I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage.

I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

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

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

I get along fine with the press.

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

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.