Quotes About Personal Attacks

#1. Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.

Mike Pence

#2. 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

#3. Since critics found it hard to defeat him on intellectual grounds, they stooped to personal attacks.

Ron Chernow

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

Dick Cheney

#5. Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#6. I'm not joining in personal attacks ... I don't do personal attacks.

Jeremy Corbyn

#7. I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

Al Franken

#8. 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

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

William J. Clinton

#10. 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

#11. Be aware that you are always invulnerable to personal attacks inspired by envy and spite.

Allen Drury

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

George W. Bush

#13. While exceptional employees don't seek conflict, they don't run away from it either. They're able to maintain their composure while presenting their positions calmly and logically. They're able to withstand personal attacks in pursuit of the greater goal and never use that tactic themselves.

Travis Bradberry

#14. 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

#15. It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.

Gerry Adams

#16. The four Keltar Druids brought their wives and children. They breed like it's their personal mission to populate their country in case somebody attacks again, as if anybody wants the bloody place.

Karen Marie Moning

#17. Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.

Ann Kirkpatrick

#18. The idea of a "free market" separate and distinct from government has functioned as a useful cover for those who do not want the market mechanism fully exposed. They have had the most influence over it and would rather keep it that way. The mythology is useful precisely because it hides their power.

Robert B. Reich

#19. He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.

Anne McCaffrey

#20. Anyone who attacks individual charity, attacks human nature and casts contempt on personal dignity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction.

Peter Heather

#22. To become a leader, you must first become a human being

Confucius

#23. I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons,

Osama Bin Laden

#24. We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.

Rob Reiner

#25. All life long, the same questions, the same answers.

Samuel Beckett

#26. You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

#27. Cause that's all I want. A sweet, mature, normal, loving guy, with no baggage. And who has an absolutely enormous penis.

Mindy Kaling

#28. Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

George MacDonald

#29. A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

George Bernard Shaw

#30. I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus.

Michael Ignatieff