Roger Ailes Quotes

We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.

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.

Every successful president has suffered imputations that he has in sinister fashion charmed the press or used a new medium of communication (radio, television, the Internet) to claim an undeserved standing.

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

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

Everyone in politics turns to the press, if only to manipulate it or deflect it.

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

Nothing is so tantalizing to journalists as some answer they can't get. If you want to appeal to political journalists,…you hide something from us …

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection. You say what you have to say in the way you have to say it to give it media currency - and that's always far from the truth. Often, in fact, someone else says it for you. It's all planned. It's all rehearsed.

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

I get along fine with the press.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

The media can make or break an administration.

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

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

The 1934 Republican response to the Upton Sinclair campaign for California Governor marked a stunning advance in the art of public relations, in which advertising men now believed they could sell or destroy political candidates as they sold one brand of soap and defamed its competitor. In another twenty years, these techniques would spread East, achieve a new refinement, and begin to dominate the politics of the nation.

This is Capitol Hill where they never let facts get in the way of a good press release.

The world of messaging is the world of campaign consultants, of politicians, who are like trained seals who are given their message and then they perform. I’m not into that.

A dozen men in good suits and women in silk dresses will circulate smoothly among the reporters, spouting confident opinions. They won't be just press agents trying to impart a favorable spin to a routine release. They'll be the Spin Doctors, senior advisers to the candidates

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

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

To be sure, every White House tries to limit its exposure to difficult and distracting questions. The Obama administration was scrutinized for its use of late night shows and YouTube chats to get the president's message across in low-risk situations.

I'd rather have the media as my friends than making use of them for my own benefit.