Steve Mnuchin Quotes

I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardship in order to make a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.

Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.

I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.

It's a horrible thing to have someone pretend like they know what you're about and call you a fraud when they haven't given you a fair shot.

An attack is always a smear when it is directed against you.

Those whose ox the press gores cry foul every time.

Imprisonment for debt is a meaner practice than the savage tolerates with all his ferocity.

When people write things on the Internet about me that aren't true, it's tough to deal with. Even if you're the most mellow person in the world, stuff like that bothers you eventually.

I've been bashed my whole career.

The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.

Everything people are saying about her - all that negativity - it's garbage. That's not my mother.

Nothing has really made me upset aside from the baseless, false accusations of PED use.

My name has been cleared after being blacklisted even though it was for no fault of mine.

I was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar. I think some of the treatment was pretty cruel.

You feel hurt when you hear things which you are supposed to have said, which you wouldn't even have given a thought to.

To be labelled a cheat - it's not fair. If I'm a cheat, then prove I'm a cheat or just leave me alone and let me do what I do best.

I know for me, personally, when something is being said about me that isn't true, it's extremely hurtful and frustrating.

Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.

I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.