Geraldine Ferraro Quotes

And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

A lot of people have tried to put labels on me, but right now I'm focused on being Kristi Noem and getting my message out to South Dakotans.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

My public image is none of my business.

Any politician is always looking for a format where they can show who they really are, show their true selves.

I used to be quite laid back and that. But obviously the more you're in the public eye, the more you've got to... dress to impress.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

As you get a lot of exposure, a lot of people looking at you, you have to take it more so how you carry yourself, how people view you. You have to worry about your image.

In terms of what people think about me, the truth of the matter is, I guess I care to a certain extent, but not enough to try to go out in the public and plead for some kind of new understanding of me.

I've never been able to control my public image.

I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck could run for vice president.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

The public is a part of my real life.

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.