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You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.

I'm not in the business to make people aware of me, and publicists are very expensive - they're $3,500 a month! I don't want to spend that kind of money so I can get a stupid article in 'Interview' magazine.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

I have had a career in public service.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I'm a public servant. And I work for the American people.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

Say something personal, not from a publicist.