Bases Quote by Helen Thomas

It is rather absurd on its face to suggest that the president of the United States should not be managing his own press conferences…

— Mollie Hemingway

Is it really the right of the media to dictate to the president whom he will allow in his press conferences? That's tetchier. And…

— Gene Weingarten

I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean,…

— Cory Doctorow

The White House press corps isn't there at a press briefing. It's not... They're not news gatherers there. There really isn't any media.

— Rush Limbaugh

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be…

— Otto Schily

The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.

— Ben Shapiro

You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to…

— Jeff Sessions

The thing that I try to remember is that in the briefing room it's not a debate. I'm not supposed to go in there…

— Josh Earnest

The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.

— Phil Donahue

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of…

— Carlisle Floyd

Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

— Rafael dos Anjos

We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

— Kapil Sibal