Blake Farenthold Quotes

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.

The media has had its fun with me.

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

The media is going to treat you good one day and bad the next day.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

The media are a bunch of maggots…. I don't smoke crack cocaine!

It’s always open season on the personal lives of presidents or presidential candidates.

There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

You live by the media, you live by the polls, you've got to suffer by the polls, too.

Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

I was really upset when media portrayed Sandalwood in a negative light. How could they? It's an industry I love so much.

I view myself as having an adversarial approach to the media.

I don't bash people in the media, like other people.

Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

There's no counting the number of times the media have asked, 'Will this be the thing that drives Donald Trump's supporters away from him? Is this finally the time?'

The topic of Sarah Palin has been open season to the media, entertainment industry, and club comics alike.

I've always had the media going against me every year.

Remember, folks - do not doubt me on this - the media gets up every day hoping, praying, dreaming, thinking that that day something is going to surface or happen that will end up being the silver bullet that gets rid of Donald Trump.

I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.