Nicholas Soames Quotes

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.

Famous doesn't mean anything. Just because people know my face doesn't mean they know us or that it makes us any more interesting or better.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved—commitment to a scenario.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

Sometimes heads of state have to make statements for [local] public consumption.

Listen, we’re making good progress in Iraq. Sometimes its hard to tell it when you listen to the filter.

I have no more obligation to spin. When you’re in the White House, you spin.

Books by politicians paint a picture of what they want you to see, not what really happened.

The press creates a caricature.

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in the televised presidential debate.

That's what media do. They make you out to be a monster.

During Ronald Reagan's administration, '60 Minutes' ran a segment about the difference between Reagan's rhetoric and Reagan's actions. The show thought it had produced a hard-hitting piece; Reagan's team called up '60 Minutes' to thank them for the 15-minute commercial.

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.

At his campaign launch, Donald Trump apparently paid extras $50 to cheer for him at the rally. Trump said, 'Usually when I pay a person to like me, it's my wife.'

For a good man fame is always a problem.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?

I stand by this man (President George W. Bush). I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound.. with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world.