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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.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

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.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

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.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.