Insider Status Quotes

For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!

I don't feel comfortable as an insider.

What I Iove about Y Combinator is that it is a level playing field. If you get in, you immediately become a Silicon Valley insider.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

If you can sell yourself as someone who knows how Washington works, someone who has these relationships, that's a very marketable commodity. If you're seen as someone who knows how this town works, someone who is a usual suspect in this town, you can dine out for years - that's why no one leaves.

Giving money doesn't make you an insider. If that's considered being an insider, I guess Donald Trump is an insider. That doesn't make sense.

[G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.

I have been around for 33 years and I don't have a filmy background. I don't know if I am an insider or an outsider but I have never felt any discrimination.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

I feel like I've had this ability to infiltrate, as an outsider and an insider, different groups.

In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad.

I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you.

I haven't changed - the public has. I'm an insider now, which is hilarious.