Pierre Salinger Quotes

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

Funny, Election, Happened

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

Education, President, United

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

Someone, America, Show

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
Pierre Salinger

American, President, Simply

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

Family, Loyalty, Liked

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

History, Cannot, Seen

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

Work, Time, After

I am not very introspective.
Pierre Salinger

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

Emotional, Son, Once

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

Him, America, Texas

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

Men, Greatest, Lost

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.
Pierre Salinger

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.
Pierre Salinger

Learn, Marry, Aristotle

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

Happiness, Far, Tragedy

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, Her

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

Himself, President, Sign

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, Talk, Loved

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

Him, Before, Problems

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
Pierre Salinger

President, Forever, Coming

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

Different, Before, President

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

Life, Great, Death

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.
Pierre Salinger

Scandal, Watergate, French

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

War, Rise, Terrorism

The things that stand out are often the oddities.
Pierre Salinger

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.
Pierre Salinger

Children, Youth, Since

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: June 14, 1925

Died: October 16, 2004

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