Pierre Salinger Quotes

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

  Pierre Salinger

  People, President, Being Lied

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• Whole generations have forgotten history.

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  Generations, Forgotten, Whole

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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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  Children, Taken, Life Is

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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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  Believe, Numbers, Understanding

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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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  Country, Winning, France

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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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  America, President, United States

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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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  Suicide, Son, Men

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• I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

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  Stupid, May, Not Stupid

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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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  Sleep, Night, Men

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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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  Brother, People, Needs

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

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  Children, White, House

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

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  Forever, President, Information

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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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  Loyalty, Kennedy Family, Firsts

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• The things that stand out are often the oddities.

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  Oddities, Standing Out

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

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  Funny, Way, Firsts

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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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  Names, America, People

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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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  Alaska, President, Lovers

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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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  Education, Thinking, People

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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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  Running, Differences, Mistress

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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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  Son, Emotional, Ostriches

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

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  War, Islamic, Terrorism

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• The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

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  Scandal, Watergate

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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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  Resignation, American Life, Turning Points

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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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  Texas, Cities, America

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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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  Husband, Wonderful, Week

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