Steve Scalise Quotes

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.

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

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

It angers me that a timed, planned and paid smearing campaign is run against me in the press.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife.

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.

Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.

Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying.

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.

…the statements to the World and News consist simply of a string of infamous libels.

I will not respond to allegations made by someone who had been hooked up to jumper cables.

Scandal [criticism and slander] against the great, though seldom prosecuted at present, is however, in the eye of the law, a great crime, and subjects the offender to very heavy penalties.

Unless you are a prohibitive front-runner, an unanswered smear is believed.