Jon Lovett Quotes

I'd rather make all my secrets public than have an image based on gossip. I'd rather put it out there myself and control it.

I know I could have a better public image if I were less open, if I ducked more issues and didn't speak out. But it's not my nature.

I'm not a big fan of just cultivating an image.

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

When I first came into the business, I had to, for the sake of being able to sell myself as an artist, always be happy and jovial and smiling. I was the happy nice girl, and I am the happy nice girl, but I have my moments, too.

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it.

Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.

If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person. If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

I don't think you've ever heard anything bad about me, and I'd like to keep it that way.

How can I not be straightforward? I’m not a nobody. A somebody like me needs to handle things in a straight forward manner.

What we say privately we say publicly.

I would despise myself if I thought that I was procuring your votes by concealing my opinions, and by avowing one set of principles in one part of the state and a different set in another.

Certainly he [Richard M. Nixon] is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy.