Press Releases Quotes

We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested.

Stop sending out press releases and start passing some bills...

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

I never knew how much you had to do to promote a movie, and I can't imagine what it would be like if you didn't like the movie you were promoting.

The 2016 Presidential Campaign had the most bizarre and unusual occurrences in all my years of covering politics, I have never seen so much that was unique and unheard of. My favorite one was when the Republican Speaker of the House referred to the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, the "Devil Incarnate". And then the Society of Satan Worshippers put out a Press Release denying it.

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 was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'

I must have done about 25,000 promos.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

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

All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.

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

I was a publicist for other people's movies.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Relationships are the key element to Press & PR

Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.

My goal is to be the tough negotiator but... not to air differences through press releases.

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

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

Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable in the hot seat.

When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

If electric vehicles ran on press releases, keynote addresses, memoranda and media availabilities, we’d all be driving them by now.