Press Release Quotes

• 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.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Future, Government

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up

  Ben Parr

  Writing, Release, Presses

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• If you are a marketing professional who wants to reach your buyers directly, many experts will say that the media is the only way to tell your story, and that press releases only to reach journalists - not your buyers directly. They'll say that bloggers are geeks in pajamas who don't matter. They are wrong.

  David Meerman Scott

  Media, Marketing, Experts

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• Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.

  Ryan Holiday

  Thinking, Media, Ideas

  Ryan Holiday (2013). “Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising (APenguin Special from Portfolio)”, p.11, Penguin

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• Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

  Wayne LaPierre

  School, Gun, Law

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that's how you do things.

  Eugene Mirman

  Night, Apples, Knowing

  "The Erudite Absurdist: Eugene Mirman". Interview with Austin Nelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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• Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard outside changed to reflect the reality of the market within hours. The other sends out a press release, tries to organize a hearing, and at the end of amount accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile, the gas station has already made at least thirty additional adjustments to the realities of the market while your politico fails to get anything more than easy media.

  Joel Miller

  Reality, Thinking, Oil

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• A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they're like, "I want to support this person, it's good for my career," and so they get someone at the publishing house to do it, or they copy something from the press release. People write their own blurbs, absolutely, some huge percentage of the time.

  Emily Gould

  Writing, Publishing House, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My biggest surprise of the year does involve Donald Trump and it involves his money. And I am one of the prominent disbelievers of his claims of wealth and how rich he was. He put out a press release before he did his financial disclosure form saying he made over $200 million from a TV show.If you know about the economics of televisions, that sounds impossible. I don`t believe it.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Believe, Years, Tv Shows

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, bypassed the debate before the Iowa caucuses because he objected to the participation of moderator Megyn Kelly as well a press release defending her.Beyond the Trump tantrum, we wondered if this had something bigger to say about the state of the media and politics and how politics is practiced today.

  Michel Martin

  Media, Iowa, Tantrums

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative absurdity - that has completely detached from its intended object. It's left reality behind long ago. It's like something out of William Burroughs.

  David Salle

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press releases, by disinformation, by low-quality studies, and by some suppression of information, manipulating the media and people at large. When the official scientific press does not report correctly, or obstructs views dissenting from those of the scientific establishment, it loses credibility and leaves no alternative but to find information elsewhere.

  Serge Lang

  Views, Media, People

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• Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a handful of politicized ministers. Such organizations were better at issuing press releases than doing the hard work of political mobilization and advocacy. By contrast, the movement of the 1990s has generated a plethora of grass-roots organizations that allocate meaningful responsibilities to individual members. The goal is to create an army of grassroots activists who know how to stimulate political change.

  Kenneth D. Wald

  Christian, Meaningful, Hard Work

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• Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

  Joe Bastianich

  Life Lesson, Men, People

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• Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.

  Sam Altman

  Writing, Easier, Release

  "https://genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-2-ideas-products-teams-and-execution-part-ii-annotated". Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• The last time I talked to Axl was in 1996. That was the last time we exchanged any sort of words. There was a rumor that I talked to him a while back [and asked to rejoin the band]. I did go to his house one night, and I talked to his assistant about something that had to do with this lawsuit that we were involved in. But it got turned into something else. He went out and made a press release that said I actually spoke to him, which was all bullshit. I was really shocked.

  Slash

  Night, Bullshit, House

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, music.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

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• I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

  Charles Stross

  Jobs, Reading, Editors

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.

  Patrick Leahy

  Agency, Information, Release

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• I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'

  Wavy Gravy

  Running, Cities, Kansas City

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• There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Dumb, Trying, Down And

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

  William Hague

  Law, Guilty, Release

  "Yesterday in parliament" by The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2006.

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• If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.

  Ed Koch

  Running, Sunday, Law

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• Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

  Tiger Woods

  Mean, Sin, Problem

  Tiger Woods' statement, edition.cnn.com. December 2, 2009.

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• The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cutting, Men, Glowing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.70, Random House

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• Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

  Tom Hardy

  Fun, Believe, Grateful

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