Larry Speakes quotes
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“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.”
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“If you tell the same story five times, it's true.”
-- Larry SpeakesSource : "Let Obama's Reagan Revolution Begin" by Frank Rich, www.nytimes.com. January 8, 2011.
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“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.”
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“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
-- Larry SpeakesSource : "Speakes Defines His Role In Shaping Events" by Leslie H. Gelb, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 1986.
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“Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.”
-- Larry SpeakesSource : Larry Speakes, Robert Pack (1989). “Speaking out: the Reagan presidency from inside the White House”
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“You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.”
-- Larry SpeakesSource : Larry Speakes, Robert Pack (1989). “Speaking out: the Reagan presidency from inside the White House”
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“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”
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“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”
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Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Double Comfort Safari Club”, p.211, Anchor
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Source : Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
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“All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.”
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“We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.”
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“Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.”
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“Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.”
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