Peer Steinbruck Quotes

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

The minute you announce as a candidate, your opponents go on a deep sea fishing expedition for your sins.

It’s always open season on the personal lives of presidents or presidential candidates.

I think it's really tough being in Donald Trump's shoes, when you've got the media looking to put the worst possible spin to everything that you say.

The topic of Sarah Palin has been open season to the media, entertainment industry, and club comics alike.

I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.

Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.

Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.

The trouble [with modern political campaigns] is that the technicians of the media and the professional campaign advisors believe that the negative commercials and the attack work better.

In something as important as an election, a little name-calling sometimes breaks out.

It's not a smear, if you please, if you point out the record of your opponent.

Negative advertising is the only way voters can find out that a candidate may be unfit for public office.

For an office-seeker [candidate], sticks and stones are greatly to be preferred to an adhesive adjective.

The Republicans are much better at negative ads than we are. But we have the 24 hour rule. If they hit you, you get your response on the media within 24 hours.

It wouldn’t hurt to remind the voters of what scoundrels your opponents are and to smear them at every opportunity….

The media is in our country is free. Do you see what they write against me?.... They have a right to criticize the government…. I did not come in through bullets—they elected me

In a national campaign you are driven to negativism.

All of these attacks on Secretary Clinton, at the end of the day, are character attacks.

Hillary Clinton, because she's the Democrats' presumptive 2016 front-runner, has become the target du jour. Frankly, I don't know how public figures get through it.

You live by the media, you live by the polls, you've got to suffer by the polls, too.

The only group that is less self-aware than Hillary Clinton is the media.