Michael Ignatieff Quotes

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.

If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc.

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

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 can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

When I was a kid, there was teasing in school. Then when I was a teenager on 'Days of Our Lives,' I certainly experienced hurtful comments from 'fans' of the show.

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.

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

Evil report carries further than any applause.

I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often - dull.

Why are people so sensitive about the reputation of General [George] McClellan? There is always something rotten about a sensitive reputation. Besides, is not General McClellan an American citizen? And is it not the first attribute and distinction of an American to be abused and slandered as long as he is heard of?

Vice President Quayle has been the object of too much attention that does not flatter him.

Critics intend on changing the balance of public opinion and of political power.

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

Social media has come a long way. With the good has come some bad, and you always have a lot of people hiding behind their computers and being very critical of what you do on and off the field, of what you tweet, of what you say, of everything you do.

Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell those people. It's like people that don't know me or people that aren't even my friends saying I've changed. I have two friends - exactly two friends. It's like, how can someone that's not even my friend say I've changed?

The thing about social media is that someone's going to hate what you do no matter what you do.

Ever since I left the 'Sunday Times' there has been a group of scribes waiting for me to fall on my face, and having a go at my commercial record, looking to pick holes in it.

I'm hugely affected by what people think. It could be a million people saying, 'Great.' And then one person writes, 'What the hell is this kid doing?' and starts slagging me off, for some reason, and then I have to join in the blog and sign in under a different name and go,'Why don't you like him?'

Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.