Carly Fiorina Quotes

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

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.

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.

What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.

The reality here is, these are people that campaign for votes, and nobody wants to be associated with pictures that would certainly exist, even if they were fake, and they most likely would be. You know, can you imagine 150 pictures of that federal agent storming the home in Florida to kidnap Elian Gonzalez and send him back to Cuba?

The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.

What is important for me is that the people who know me for real know Mario how he really is. People who don't know me, they read newspapers and they watch TV. TV is made to give a lot of opinions... so I can't show the real Mario to everybody.

Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

Politics is the business of managing perceptions.

A lot of times, what people see is what they hear or what's on your Instagram.

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

My image is the creation of media.

Whatever the reality is the perception is that Marco Rubio went to Washington and threw in with the, quote/unquote, "establishment". He cannot - he cannot recover from that. Has not been able to recover from that.

I don't think there's any difference in the two Donald Trumps. Maybe I didn't make this clear. I don't think Trump's different in Washington than he is there. The difference is you don't have anybody tweeting. The Trump in Washington compared to the Trump in Middle east trip, what's the difference? The Trump in Washington is filtered by the media.

The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.

I'm a good guy at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people will believe what they see in the media from a long time ago. I'm just growing as an artist and as a person.

I do think fame can distort reality. I've always felt that.

We're looking at two different presidents here if all we have to go on is the media. When Donald Trump is in Washington, D.C., what is he? He is a genuine idiot. He's impolitic, he's uninformed, he's running a chaotic administration where nobody knows what anybody is doing. Whenever they do anything it is disastrous. But the Donald Trump of Washington doesn't exist, because the Donald Trump of Washington is what is reported in the Drive-By Media.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.

The only thing Hillary Clinton has going for herself is the press, without the press, she is absolutely zero.

Perception is reality.

We kind of forget because what television tends to do with these professions like lawyers and doctors and police officers, we create them on such a heroic level that you kind of forget that these are really people.