Art Buchwald Quotes

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.

Of course I've done stupid things in my career, and I do always seem to be in the paper, but I hate seeing myself.

If you ever plan to run for office, if you're a teenager, remember everything you do, every tweet, every Facebook posting, every picture you put on Instagram will be there forever for journalists and politicians - for your competition to dig up.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

Take press coverage seriously but not personally

I don’t care if you fuck the elephants, but if you do, you can’t cover the circus.

If you’re going to be in national politics you have to maintain a thick skin.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.

I'm sure if I have plans, the Press will inform me.

Members [of Congress] go back now and report on TV. And the local press doesn't have the slightest idea of what you're doing on public policy unless you get caught in a scandal.

My New Year's resolution is to make sure I genuflect appropriately before the Chicago media on everything I do.

A man that could look no way but downward, with a muckrake in his hand.