Media Coverage Quotes

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

Working for the 'Miami Herald' in 1972, I covered street action for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Miami and saw probably the most violent conventions ever - more violent than even 1968 in Chicago.

The job of the reporters in Vietnam was to report the news, whether or not the news was good for America. To the ambassadors and generals, on the other hand, it was crucial that the news be good, and they regarded any other interpretation as defeatist and irresponsible.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is.

I don’t care if you fuck the elephants, but if you do, you can’t cover the circus.

John McCain has not spoken about my Muslim faith.

I've covered a lot of presidential campaigns.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

Does General Grant think I care what the newspapers say?

Candidates matter. Campaigns matter. 'He can win' or 'She can't win' is up there with, 'I'm going to lose 10 pounds, win the lottery, and live forever.' Saying it does not make it so.

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

I talk about things that are front page news.

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

During the last 20 years the advent of radio changed all the old rules of political campaigning( Now the successful advent of television, available for the first time this year in a presidential campaign, must again influence the planning of the campaign

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values.

What I find shocking is that there's this thought process that Hillary Clinton is going to be president of the United States, and to even think of Donald Trump is a joke.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

When I was Under-Secretary, I never got quoted at all. Now everything I say gets noted and printed.

No one today in Washington doubts the superior firepower of the media over that of the executive branch.

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.