Smriti Irani Quotes

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

Nobody has been criticized as much as I have.

If you get anything done, you will be criticized

I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.

I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.

I know I'm not popular with all the people. Remember, I am 'cruel' or a 'pharaoh.' That's all right. In politics, you get called all types of names.

Donald Trump is anathema to America.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.

I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don't support you.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

There's backlash about everything I do.

The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

The Britney Spears fans aren't going to dig us.

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.