Kofi Annan Quotes

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

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

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

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

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 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.

Once, I used to have the local reporter on the team bus and I'd tell him everything, so when he wrote about the club he was informed, even if he couldn't print some things. Those days are long gone.

Relationships with the media are really important. The media has a more important voice today than it has ever had. We don't advertise. We only have one marketing vehicle, which is editorial, and our ability to get our message out and communicate it effectively.

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.

I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.

I give media outlets my direct number.

I like to talk to media.

The people who are afraid of talking to press are people who have something to hide.

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

I normally don't do interviews on the road.

Every media appearance is a learning experience about the media outlet and their journalists and their feelings about you, so treat it as such.

It's difficult to be the spokesperson for something that internally is falling apart. That's a tremendous amount of pressure to put on one person, to be the guy who gives all the quotes, all the interviews.

If I say one thing to the UFC, I say it in an interview. I don't have conflicting stories.

As a footballer, it can be enjoyable to do a proper interview where you trust the journalist to reproduce your thoughts.

I've always been a believer that if you're not interested in talking to the media, you shouldn't be running for Senate in the first place, or you're kind of missing out on one of the key components is to get your message out of what you want to do.

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

I don't like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?