Mike Braun Quotes

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

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

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

I love covering politics at that early stage where you can walk up to Mike Huckabee, who gets out of his car by himself. A car that he drove, who just walks up and talks to you because that's the only way he can get his message out.

Many people in public life are not good campaigners.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement.

If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

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.

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

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.

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.

Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's messages, but he is a masterful orator. Bill Clinton, too.

Sometimes in the moment when I'm doing a press conference, one of my favorite things is to watch reporters.

Talking to the press, you say things a little differently.

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

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.

Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them to come out and face the cameras with confidence, but if they do, it will only help them. They will find themselves closer to their fans and will also get their word across more effectively.

In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

I'm happy to do interviews from time to time, but I don't find them that necessary - and that hasn't seemed to have affected people's understanding of our work.