Pierre Salinger Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#2. There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#3. I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#4. American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President. - Author: Pierre Salinger

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

#6. 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. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#7. I am not very introspective. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#8. I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#9. I may be plucky, but I am not stupid. - Author: Pierre Salinger

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

#11. I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide. - Author: Pierre Salinger

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

#13. The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#14. 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. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#15. 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. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#16. The things that stand out are often the oddities. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#17. President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information. - Author: Pierre Salinger

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

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

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

#21. Whole generations have forgotten history. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#22. A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first. - Author: Pierre Salinger

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

#24. A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#25. As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie. - Author: Pierre Salinger

#26. The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. - Author: Pierre Salinger