Vince McMahon Quotes

I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong.

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

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

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

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

I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.

I have been in office for many years, and let me tell you, many times I have hated what the press has said about me.

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

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

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.

Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.

First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.'