Spin Doctors Quotes

• The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

  Alastair Campbell

  Doctors, Media, Medicine

  "Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [158]

  135 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Night, Greatness, Born Leaders

  "Book of Humorous Quotations" by Connie Robertson, (p. 29), 1998.

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

  Stuart Ewen

  Reality, People, Battle

  49 Copy quote

• Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Passion, Media, Differences

  10 Copy quote

• It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

  Nigel Rees

  Doctors, Looks, Serials

  "The art of political euphemisms", news.bbc.co.uk. August 5, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.

  Grant Morrison

  Children, Reality, Doctors

  "The Invisibles". Comic book series by Grant Morrison, Volume 3, issue #04, The Invisible Kingdom, Part 1: Planet Stepford, 1994-2000.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Hate, Doctors, One Love

  4 Copy quote

• It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody

  Nick Minchin

  Doctors, Taxpayers, Revenue

  "Bligh Chief to NBN Co to be Paid $450k". www.smh.com.au. November 18, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Doctors, Scary

  "God save McQueen" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.

  Peter York

  Queens, Thinking, Ties

  4 Copy quote