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Press Quotes
"Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away."
44
"The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things."
17
"Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press."
11
"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
11
"Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together."
10
"They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press."
10
"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."
9
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
9
"You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying."
8
"I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath."
8
"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."
8
"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."
8
"Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats."
7
"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
7
"Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it."
6
"Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child."
6
"Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin."
6
"We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going."
6
"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
6
"When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom."
6
"Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House."
6
"What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others."
6
"Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom."
5
"The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends."
5
"Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat."
5
"The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it."
5
"We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us."
5
"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy."
5
"Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down."
5
"It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6."
5
"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is."
4
"The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness."
4
"I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street."
4
"If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon."
4
"I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground."
4
"If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page."
3
"We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well."
3
"I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad."
3
"Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference."
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