Charles Colson Quotes

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.

I was never one to run away from trouble - I intend to continue to fight my corner and try to redeem our reputation in some way. It's very difficult when you see the PR campaign that Anglo have built up against us. A lot of the media would be very anti-Quinn and have fallen hook, line and sinker for the Anglo story where they are the good guys.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

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.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved—commitment to a scenario.

The truth of television is that what people see, they believe.

A man had rather a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish to be told.