Chester A. Arthur Quotes

Sarah Palin's real quality is that she is her own best creation.

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 think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.

You need a story, a scenario as First Lady.

I don't care whom you take; Chester Allen Arthur will do as well as any other.

The more publicized the presidency the less powerful the office.

He appeals to their imagination; I do not. He is a real vivid person whom they have seen and shouted themselves hoarse over and voted for, millions strong: I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

People think I'm a celebrity. I'm not a celebrity.

It's almost like living a double life where I'm in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, 'Foxy Knoxy,' an idea of a person, exists, and I'm constantly having to juggle how someone is interacting with me based upon that two-dimensional person of me that has been in the public's imagination for so long.

We can project just about anything we want onto NFL owners - one of them is named Arthur Blank, for heaven's sake. He's a walking Mad Lib, just waiting for us to complete him.

Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open.

The media did not make Donald Trump, and they can't destroy him.

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.

I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now facing a kind of personal dilemma. She can't decide whether to drop the name Clinton from her name, or drop the name Rodham. They can't figure out which one is more embarrassing.

Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

Whether it's her [ Hillary Clinton] guarded privacy or whatever else, I mean, there has got to be some sense that this is a human being that I can identify.

This woman [Hillary Clinton] has been in public, has been a nationally known figure for over 30 years. Why does anybody have to tell us who she is? And why does she need to be "humanized"?

I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.