Don Willett Quotes

For me, especially running for office, being on Twitter is a fundamental part of my job.

I really have paid no attention to social media. It's never been something that I've done. There are people that put up tour dates and basically say what's going on, but I need to get more involved, because I hear about rumors that are absolutely ridiculous.

We [Al Qaeda] must make every effort to reach out to Muslims ... through new media like Facebook and Twitter.

We utilize social media, we try to connect with voters in a way that's not only about politics. Letting people into your lives.

I think social media brings another dynamic to running for office so publicly.

I never got really into Twitter until more recently when I started doing the Dirt Nasty thing, and created that other character. I think it's almost essential now. I don't think Leonardo DiCaprio necessarily needs to do it, but someone like me, who's somewhere in the middle of nowhere and a shitstack, I need to do that.

If you ever plan to run for office, if you're a teenager, remember everything you do, every tweet, every Facebook posting, every picture you put on Instagram will be there forever for journalists and politicians - for your competition to dig up.

The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try to use Twitter and Facebook as much as possible.

I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.

Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media.

Review" is a great word in politics. It will last you almost an entire election cycle if you play it right.

The reason I lost the Governor’s race to Patterson is that I was out niggered. No one is ever going to out nigger me again.

The world of messaging is the world of campaign consultants, of politicians, who are like trained seals who are given their message and then they perform. I’m not into that.

It’s the [political] consultants’ job to take who the person is—their fixed characteristics—and leverage it.

Since the rise of television in the 1950s, the media have become the central forum for American politicking, and increasingly today that role is being played by the blogosphere. With the blogger and the viewer replacing the pamphleteer and the parader, politicians focus on marketing themselves and their causes to passive consumers rather than mobilizing passionate soldiers. The new language of politics sounds like this: Spin doctors stage photo ops as pollsters survey voter preferences, spawning celebrity candidates.

Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns.

There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.

In this day and age, people have come to expect that artists are going to give everybody information on Twitter about what they're doing, but not every artist is like that. I'm not really like that.

Twitter has revealed some monstrous information in Congress: we spent money on our ad campaigns. Just as all the usual media organizations in the world do.

I think film promotion has become really important in today's time. PM Narendra Modi also felt the need to do campaigning. If he doesn't do that, then nobody will give vote to him.

I do everything through Twitter, YouTube or the Internet somehow.

Just to talk a moment about transparency, of course CIA does have a Twitter account.

You know, I did start a Twitter account, but that's the only thing I do. I feel torn because I don't want to promo myself and force that down people's throats, but on the other hand, that's a component. There's some real interest in, "Hey, what are you doing next?"

When I started performing, there wasn't Facebook and Social Media was not huge as it is now.