Pierre Salinger quotes
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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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“To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.”
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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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“There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.”
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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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“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 death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.”
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“The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.”
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“The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.”
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“The things that stand out are often the oddities.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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 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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“If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.”
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“Whole generations have forgotten history.”
-- Pierre Salinger
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