Pierre Salinger Quotes
Pierre Emil George Salinger was a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
(1925 - 2004)
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A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.
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A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.
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America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.
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American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
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As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.
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Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
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He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?
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I am not very introspective.
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I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
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I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.
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I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.
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I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.
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I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.
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I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
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Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.
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On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
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Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.
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One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.
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President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
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The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.
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