Public Figure quotes

Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival – the freaks who bite the heads off chickens – but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.