Donald Trump

The other people I don’t take too seriously are the critics-except when they stand in the way of my projects. In my opinion, they mostly write to impress each other, and they’re just as swayed by fashions as anyone else. One week it’s spare glass towers they are praising to the skies. The next week, they’ve rediscovered old, and they’re celebrating detail and ornamentation.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can’t make the right sort of settlement, so I’m aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger did a really bad job as Governor of California and even worse on the Apprentice…but at least he tried hard!

You don’t reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn’t happy.

Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

Fake news is at an all time high. Where is their apology to me for all of the incorrect stories???

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I’m about as a person and as a writer.

With the press there is no ‘off the record’.

The media is really, the word, I think one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with is fake. I guess other people have used it perhaps over the years, but I’ve never noticed it.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

One of the more radical and interesting possible ways to limit the power of unaccountable media barons is to give journalists the power to elect editors and have seats on boards for workers and consumers when a title or programme gets particularly large and influential.

I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.

I notice in some of the newspapers that they have taken a bit of an interest in me. According to one headline Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the prospect of an asteroid wiping out humanity. Asteroids are pretty controversial and it is not the kind of thing I would want to rule out… without a full debate at conference and a review so can we have the debate later in the week.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.

Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man – he made a good decision.

I can understand the British media and why they are doing that. It does not add up to much. I’m used in my life to not paying much attention to some things.

We got killed in Newsweek.