Bill Clinton Quotes

At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile. Because that's not true.

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

This is a smear on the image that Thurmond has as a person of high integrity.

I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character.

There have been so many false things written about me by people who don't know me.

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign?

We're dealing with character assassins. We're dealing with career assassins. That's who the media is today.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

People will have their guesses and opinions on my character, but anyone that's actually sat down and talked to me knows that I don't have any character issues, any off-the-field issues.

People are sensible enough to know who's dragging my name in dirt for publicity.

People in Seattle and Tacoma know who I am as a person, and I don't think I am a character risk or have a character issue at all.

There's been a lot of lies written about me.

I will not allow either my good name or the good name of the company I founded and love to be unfairly tainted.

I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.