Larry Speakes quotes

“Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.”
-- Larry Speakes

#Hunting Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes #President Quotes

“If you tell the same story five times, it's true.”
-- Larry Speakes

Source : "Let Obama's Reagan Revolution Begin" by Frank Rich, www.nytimes.com. January 8, 2011.

#Stories Quotes

“Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face.”
-- Larry Speakes

#Air Quotes #White Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
-- Larry Speakes

Source : "Speakes Defines His Role In Shaping Events" by Leslie H. Gelb, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 1986.

#Lying Quotes #Dodge Quotes #Interest Quotes

“Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.”
-- Larry Speakes

Source : Larry Speakes, Robert Pack (1989). “Speaking out: the Reagan presidency from inside the White House”

“You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.”
-- Larry Speakes

Source : Larry Speakes, Robert Pack (1989). “Speaking out: the Reagan presidency from inside the White House”

#News Quotes #Politics Quotes #Stage Quotes

“Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.”
-- Larry Speakes

#Lips Quotes

“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”

“If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.”

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”

“Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.”

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Double Comfort Safari Club”, p.211, Anchor

“You know those moments when everything is exactly the way it was meant to be? When you find yourself and your entire universe aligning in perfect synchronization, and you know you couldn’t possibly be more content? I was inside that very moment, and fully conscious of it.”

Source : Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

“All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.”

“We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.”

“THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.”

“Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.”

“Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.”