Steve Rushin Quotes

What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.

I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.'

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.'

I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

I've learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

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

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

The Cowboys were never America's team any more than Anthony Weiner was America's congressman.

I don't really consider myself a celebrity.

When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.

The media has had its fun with me.

Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

I would hope that Kanye [West] would be remembered for being smart and sticking to what he believes.

I don't think there's any difference in the two Donald Trumps. Maybe I didn't make this clear. I don't think Trump's different in Washington than he is there. The difference is you don't have anybody tweeting. The Trump in Washington compared to the Trump in Middle east trip, what's the difference? The Trump in Washington is filtered by the media.

One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents.

I remember quotes in the paper, 'Here comes the man that New York loves to hate.' Man? None of you have probably ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what the man is about. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things, have written so many things.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.