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My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.