Pierre Salinger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Believe #Numbers #Understanding
To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Children #Taken #Taking Things For Granted
I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Happiness #Tragedy #Share
There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Children #White #House
I am not very introspective.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Introspective
Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Husband #Wonderful #Week
One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Brother #People #Needs
President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Forever #President #Information
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Resignation
The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Scandal
The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.
-- Pierre Salinger

#War #Islamic #Terrorism
The things that stand out are often the oddities.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Oddities #Standing Out
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.
-- Pierre Salinger

#America #President #United States
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Alaska #President #Lovers
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.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Sleep #Night #Men
I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Son #Emotional #Ostriches
A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Funny Things #Way #Firsts
I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Stupid #May #Not Stupid
A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Thinking #People #President
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.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Names #America #People
American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
-- Pierre Salinger

#People #President #Being Lied
As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Loyalty #Firsts #Members
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?
-- Pierre Salinger

#Running #Differences #President
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.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Texas #Cities #America
I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Suicide #Son #Men
If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Country #Winning #France
Whole generations have forgotten history.
-- Pierre Salinger

#Generations #Forgotten

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