Larry Speakes Quotes

#1. I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Larry Speakes

#2. Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event

Gaston Bachelard

#3. Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.

Larry Speakes

#4. That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.

Ronald Reagan

#5. Ronan did not smoke; he preferred his habits with hangovers.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. Imitation is criticism.

William Blake

#7. 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

#8. Ol' Shoot from the Lip, we call him.

Larry Speakes

#9. If you tell the same story five times, it's true.

Larry Speakes

#10. You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

Larry Speakes

#11. It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

Brigham Young

#12. So much was closing in about the women who sat knitting, knitting, that they their very selves were closing in around a structure yet unbuilt, where they were to sit knitting, knitting, counting dropping heads.

Charles Dickens