Personal Attacks Quotes

• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cheer, Mean, Thinking

  "Thatcher Put the "Great" Back in Great Britain" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 14, 2013.

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• So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

  William J. Clinton

  Differences, Honest, Modern

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• Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

  Ellen Goodman

  Issues, Today, Rooms

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• Politically, I don't care what party you're from, offer a point of view and let's see what happens and really debate the issues rather than use personal attacks. Really talk about it, talk about immigration, talk about education, talk about pollution.

  Robin Williams

  Party, Views, Issues

  "Robin Williams Interview License To Wed". Wild About Movies Interview, www.wildaboutmovies.com.

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• I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

  Dawn Powell

  Kindness, Pessimistic, Injustice

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• Social media has allowed people to ramp up their personal attacks on people in the public eye - because there is a sense they can do it anonymously.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Eye, Media, People

  Source: frankviola.org

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• It's fascinating watching the debates [of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], with the search for the new president. It's like a car crash, unfolding in front of your eyes. The level of personal attacks!

  Gordon Ramsay

  Eye, Car, President

  Source: variety.com

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• I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

  Al Franken

  People, Comedy

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• There's something about the American people: They have such an innate sense of fairness that the red light goes on and the bells go off the second you approach that line. Any kind of personal attack is verboten. You shouldn't do it; it's not worth it.

  Roger Ailes

  Light, People, Red

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• You don't hear me lambasting, engaging in personal attacks, getting nasty. I don't think that belongs in politics.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Nasty, Engaging

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I think we at the faculty level have to model this behavior of having people that really truly disagree with one another be able to discuss those beliefs with one another at the level of discussion and argument and not at the level of, you know, personal attack so that our students can learn how to do that, too.

  Mark Schlissel

  Thinking, People, Levels

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's really unfortunate that instead of focusing on the really important issues in our world, Donald Trump chooses to make personal attacks on people.

  Ariel Winter

  Our World, Issues, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Not all of us are as effective as we could be, should be, or need to be, but some of the [most important] issues are slowly starting to be taken up again within black communities [because of their contributions], when we're not obsessed with personal attacks against each other.

  Michael C Dawson

  Taken, Issues, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I want to avoid personal attacks, ... I promise not to make fun of your singing.

  Dick Cheney

  Fun, Promise, Singing

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• Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.

  Bill Hybels

  Hurt, Real, Passion

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• In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.

  Chris Hadfield

  Views, Advice, Criticism

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm not responding to any of the personal attacks that come from Donald Trump, because he can say whatever he wants about me, and I have more votes than he does as we sit here today. More Americans have voted for me.

  Hillary Clinton

  Doe, Want, Today

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• You have to realize, when you're a comedian, that you have to have a thick skin. And trust me, being onstage in front of people is already difficult enough. Somebody's personal attack in an email is not as hard as getting onstage.

  Dane Cook

  People, Comedian, Skins

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• Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Negative

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• When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Hate, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The reality is [Donald] Trump is just better at this game than they are. Blaming the media may be a convenient foil, but the reality is, he`s played the free media game better than they have. He has used the personal attack meme against them and literally created memes about them. They need to figure out how to play this game.

  Chris Hayes

  Reality, Media, Games

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.

  Carl Crawford

  Running, Games, Would Be

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• Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.

  Jay Carney

  Disappointment, Exercise, Rights

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