Eunice S. Groark Quotes

The modern politician is less interested in being a hero than a superstar. Heroes walk alone; stars derive their status from approbation.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'

Perception of legitimacy is more important than legitimacy itself.

A President has to do the image stuff that will help him so that he can do the substantive things he wants to do.

I took the decision to stop her from going to the U.S. myself. I took this decision in the best national interest of Pakistan because I truly believed that the invitation would have tarnished Pakistan's international image rather than help improve the lot of women folk in Pakistan or elsewhere in the world. I believe there was a strong ulterior intent of maligning Pakistan by vested interests

…it was far better to be known as an ex-secretary than an ex-defeated candidate for governor.

A summit is a photo opportunity featuring two or more heads of government who have no business to transact, but believe a set of smiley photos will do them a lot of good politically.

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.

I don’t care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

The truth of television is that what people see, they believe.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

Let us change the image of Alabama by changing the image of its officeholders.

A man had rather a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish to be told.

A regard for reputation and the judgment of the world may sometimes be felt where conscience is dormant.

If you are not in the media today, then you do not exist.

I've got to dress more conservatively because now people write about what I wear.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

How is it that the country that invented Hollywood and Madison Avenue allowed such a destructive and parodied image of itself to become the intellectual coin of the realm overseas?

I allow the public to believe that I have more influence with the King than I do in reality.

Politicians have to be themselves because if they are not, in the end, the people will see through it.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.