Michael Bloomberg Quotes

I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.

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

If we play our cards right with the media, the Press will be our Inspector General’s Office. Encourage them to find any dirt on our programs and tell us. Then we can fix them or at least start to and everyone will be better off. We will learn of and fix out weaknesses, the press will have good stories, and the public will get better service. I can see some of you wondering what our own Office of Inspection is supposed to do. It is to find out about our problems before the press does, not to wait for complaints and then start looking. When a reporter comes to us with a scandal story of one of our programs, I would love to say, “Good reporting. That’s a serious problem and this is what we have been doing about it. Give us a hand and keep monitoring it, and let us know about our progress.” No one expects us to not have problems, but they do expect us to find them and fix them quickly, and that is what we must all expect of each other.

The longer presidents go without a press conference, the greater the suspicion that there is something to hide.

To Any Officer or Employee of the Government: Please tell Mr. Lincoln Steffens anything whatever about the government that you know (not incompatible with the public interest) and provided only that you tell him the truth—no matter what it might be—I will see to it that you are not hurt. T. Roosevelt.

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.

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

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

I don’t see any problem with having proceedings televised. I think it would be good for the public.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press

I did not see my job as Press Secretary as to help the press. My job was to help get Tony Brown and the Labour Party elected.

Misunderstanding is the great enemy of every White House press secretary.

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.

When you went to work in the morning you were going to war with the press.

I didn’t e-mail during my Presidency because I was afraid of the Freedom of Information Requests.

You have an obligation to try and make news. I have an obligation not to make news.

We would ask you to promise that you will contact the White House in advance on any national security matter the Times was reporting.

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

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

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

Tell the truth.

Every President hates the Press.

Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn't that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.