Larry Speakes quotes
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.
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
"Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.
This job has probably got the most screwing-up potential in the world.
Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
When, at the age of seven, he blew up the family truck by dropping a match down the gas tank, we should have known he'd grow up to make his living hurling verbal firebombs at presidents.
You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.