Jimmy Breslin Quotes

I don't go out of the way to create controversies, I know some actresses pay their publicist money to create a controversy, but I don't know why this happens to me.

Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.

That's garbage. Why can't they catch me in a sex scandal. I could use some good publicity.

We didn’t sell out our last concert. We’ve got to get the John Birch Society to attack us before the next concert.

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

I think Steve Bannon is much to-do about nothing. I think this is a guy who wants to create his own myth.

I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.

For decades, Trump had no life independent from the media. He became a figure in the nation, and his a monitisable name - albeit quite a ludicrous one - because of his nonstop, relentless, shameless and often embarrassing courtship of the media.

I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.

Trump keeps the spotlight on himself with one act after another, assuming correctly that yesterday's antics will be swept aside by today's.

I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false.

The media have literally no negative effect on Donald Trump. No matter what he says, no matter how he says what he says, no matter what he does, it gets covered.

Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.

I read about myself in the papers all the time.

In England, the club presidents do not seek publicity or have a high profile. In Spain, they like to be considered the most important person at the club.

To me, any publicity is good publicity.

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

I think there's going to be a lot of Americans who are really willing to be much more active than they were before, because they're worried about where Trump is headed.

The media would love to be able to ignore Donald Trump, but they don't dare. He draws too big a crowd. They've done everything they can that they usually do when they try to take a candidate out, or anybody else they want to take out. None of it works.