Eric Swalwell Quotes

I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

I am frequently attacked.

For sure, I definitely feel like there's a target on my back.

Yes, I've received death threats.

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

We remain essentially a nation under siege.

I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

I've had threats.

They have vilified me, they have crucified me—yes, they have even criticized me!

I never had to worry about putting a target on somebody else's back. Usually, the target was on my back.

I have experienced threats. Not just to me, but to my family.

When you're on top, you're going to get flack for anything.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule.

Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course one feels not only uprooted, one feels useless. One feels always surrounded by hostile forces. Arousing suspicion.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been happier if he hadn't sounded scared. "Easy, Warren," Adam told him. "You're safe here.” "If you die on us, you won't be," said Kyle with a growl that would have done credit to any of the werewolves in the room.