Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
There is an intimacy and trust that is needed between leaders, between their assistants and advisers. Usually, you have the real substance behind closed doors; and the press conferences, you have niceties, nice photo ops.
Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time.
The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.
The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people.
Every President hates the Press.
I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.
I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.
The press is the enemy.