Stephen Colbert Quotes

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

I, of course, am not influenced by the television cameras, but some members are.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

My image is the creation of media.

The reality here is, these are people that campaign for votes, and nobody wants to be associated with pictures that would certainly exist, even if they were fake, and they most likely would be. You know, can you imagine 150 pictures of that federal agent storming the home in Florida to kidnap Elian Gonzalez and send him back to Cuba?

The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political...And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change.

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.

It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.

We set ourselves up for it with the reality show. You've seen me and Nick go at each other's throats on TV. They've got all these people giving their opinions on our marriage and how we handle it when they are watching an edited TV show.

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

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?

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

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

The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.

People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.

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

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

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

Politicians used to be able to change the subject. With television they cannot do that any more.

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.