Joel Stein Quotes

We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

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.

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

There's a lot of hating on social media - and I'm not the only one, I'm 100 percent sure. Pick the best player possible - all-time or one who's playing today - everybody has something to say.

We don't read a lot of what people say about us.

Some people really hate the Fine Brothers and have for years.

People say bad things about me. I've had people tell me, "You know, Rush, I've been telling people to listen to you and listen to you, and I finally get 'em to do it, and then you say something so offensive, and they look me, 'You listen to this?' And I'm tired of defending you, Rush. Why do you say stupid things?" I know what this is like.

Donald Trump's negative enough, I don't need to add to that.

If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc.

To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'

I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.

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

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'

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.

The way I pick who gets caked is generally by who shows me the most energy and is screaming for it. I still can't help but ask myself... should I stop caking people? Will that stop the haters from hating? Stop giving the trolls more content to target me with?

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

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

It feels like every day or two, people on Twitter and the Internet are outraged about something.