Top 505 Press Quotes

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he’s a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn’t stand a word that I wrote.

I’m not really a money-oriented person. The press always write that I am. They don’t seem to want to understand that I love the comfort of Japan and love the fact it’s more peaceful, less frenzied than Hong Kong.

As smartphones have allowed us to have our computers, emails, social media feeds, and a full surveillance system in our pockets at all times, stories of the law enforcement’s unease with that have been popping up in the press. And of course, the ones that become viral videos aren’t exactly flattering for law enforcement.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

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

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn’t appreciated until after he was gone.

Dick Cheney and Bush’s rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

There’s always another press conference, another training session and more videos to watch.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

My whole approach to wardrobe is, throw it in a suitcase and make sure they don’t press it, for Pete’s sake, so I can try to display some rumpled charm. Actually, I’m just a pig. I’ve got coffee stains on my pants. I think they’re coffee stains, anyway.

Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they’ll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they’ll run for the door. They know better.

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I’m not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it’s because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it’s just that I find the present too confounding.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

To deal with COVID-19, countries like India, Brazil, Jordan and Thailand are cutting press freedom and freedom of expression. In nations like Israel, South Korea and the U.S., intrusive surveillance has been imposed to track the movement of citizens, at the expense of human rights.

In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

I think there’s a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

I always bring my Jiffy Esteam steamer to get the wrinkles out of our clothes. It’s powerful enough to press a suit.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular ‘ism’, but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.

You can’t have an industrial revolution, you can’t have democracies, you can’t have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it, and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I’ve been working on it ever since.

Opera is given so little attention in the national press.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don’t see very often in the press.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

I never talk about my private life. When you’re in this business it becomes so precious. I don’t understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way – in an echo of some of Shakespeare’s plays – the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

I’m not sure what the UFC’s agenda is when it comes to me. It’s their show, their press. They can change to whatever they want to do at any point. They own this thing. They can do whatever they want.

I don’t want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all… But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.

Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

The right really dominates radio, and it’s amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn’t. They want to shut other people up. They really don’t understand the First Amendment.

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

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won’t use them for my own press.

I wish they’d shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.

I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.

I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated with the world. And I believe in equality of opportunity. Those are my basic beliefs. On top of that, of course, I believe in some moral values.

The press should not get special privileges – if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books – but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.

There’s a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

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.

I don’t talk about my personal life with the press.

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

The informed, unmanaged question. That’s the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

When you’re expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you’re the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

I don’t think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.

Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It’s frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.