The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.
I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!
The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.
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.
The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.
I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
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