Julian Castro Quotes

Right away I'm associated with what Donald Trump stands for and all that because I introduced him. I never signed up for that, I never wanted that. That doesn't mean I support 100 percent of the things he says.

I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.

We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image.

You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own.

I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.

I don't think we have the right haircut or tattoos for politics.

I could not lose [his gubernatorial race] unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

It’s not only what you do in politics. It’s what you appear to do.

If you’re going to be in national politics you have to maintain a thick skin.

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 love the idea of the Great Wall of Trump.

Jesse Jackson is not anti-Semitic, but in politics, you always get in trouble when you try to be cute.

I know I'm not popular with all the people. Remember, I am 'cruel' or a 'pharaoh.' That's all right. In politics, you get called all types of names.

The Cowboys were never America's team any more than Anthony Weiner was America's congressman.

Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not call forth a response; it calls forth the desire for a bigger scandal.

Jeremy Corbyn confuses the public because he looks like a librarian and enjoys baking bread.

Donald Trump, who surely has lots of high-stakes issues on which to focus, is consumed with the appearance of women.

Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity.

I want people to see the full measure of Donald Trump.

I never wrote off [Donald] Trump.

[Donald] Trump is obsessed with name calling.

The response is to the image, not to the man, since 99 percent of the voters have no contact with the man.

In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.

He [Donald Trump] is been bold. He's been bold on building a wall.

Donald Trump announced his no Muslims are allowed to come to the United States plan and that led to one of the greatest tweets of all time from New York Times columnist. Quote, "OK, I concede I picked the wrong day to modestly walk back my Trumpism as fascism column."