Jennifer Palmieri Quotes

I'm very cautious of how I'm presented and my type of reputation.

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

A politician’s instinct is for self-survival.

When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

I never read anything that's written about me.

I generally don't read articles about myself/'Chappelle's Show,' nor do I read reviews. It's basically playing Russian Roulette. They're not all gonna be positive.

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

That's what it's all about for Trump. It's always about winning - winning for Trump, by making him look good in each day's reality-television production. It's never been about the country.

Whatever I have is because of the people who are watching me. I don't have a PR agency, I don't have a manager, and I don't even have a professional portfolio. People who hire me are people who, just like the audience, have just seen me in a small role here or in an ad there.

People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.

If everything in my career has to be made into an autobiography, then there will be people who might think that I am trying to make a statement. But I don't want to do that.

My image is the creation of media.

Earlier in my career, I wanted to do a lot of things under the radar because I felt uncomfortable in engaging with the fans because then they're thinking, 'Well, you're doing it for publicity,' or whatever.

In the 70s and 80s, Dad was 'the most hated politician in Britain'. When I started at Holland Park school, the papers turned up and there was a photograph of me published - skinny me in white shorts lining up with lots of other kids for PE. And I was 10.

Everybody says not to respond to people on social media, but I'm not about to let my reputation be known as a slow player. I just don't appreciate that.

It's very easy to get caught up in the world of press and maintaining an image and maintaining this highlight reel that the world expects.

People don't like to see politicians focused on themselves, we know that.

As you get a lot of exposure, a lot of people looking at you, you have to take it more so how you carry yourself, how people view you. You have to worry about your image.

My incentive in starting Vanguard, I'm very blunt about this, it was my means of preserving my career. That's a very selfish thing.

Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.

Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity.