Joel Benenson Quotes

You are who you are, and in politics, if you stay who you are, you do better.

I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.

One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.

I don't try to be someone I'm not.

Like Diogenes, when millennials went on their pursuit to find the one honest man in politics, it was obvious that man was Bernie Sanders.

I do my best to be true to who I am.

Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.

You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.

I leave it to my audience. If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?