Douglas Alexander 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 have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am just doing my job.

I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.

You don't plan on doing reality TV if you plan on getting involved in politics. My show was pretty benign, but you do say and do things that are dumb at that age. Those shows have me locked in at age 25.

I was raised in this business not to make myself part of the story. I have never wanted to be part of the story.

I've never been able to control my public image.

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

I don't go for the flash and panache.

I'm just not the type who wants to draw attention to himself.

I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if you're just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

I don't call up the press and say, 'Look at me!'

I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

I have never been interested in presenting myself.

My public image is none of my business.

When you have the chance to present yourself vocally, you realize a kind of brand develops around that vocal, and you start to see the public consciousness of you is only about one half of your brain.

Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.