Merrie Spaeth Quotes

The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.

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

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

I'm always having to get rid of reporters.

There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.

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

I'm kind of the crisis communications person at 'SNL.' If there are fires to put out, they try and find me.

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

Negative press is always going to come out.

If you have to release bad news to the public, it would help if you are not ugly.

One thing Donald Trump does, the minute something's out there about him that's not true, he blows it up. He reacts to it.

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

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

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

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

People ought to quit talking to the press.

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

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.

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

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.

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.