Larry Speakes Quotes
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Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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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.
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Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
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You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
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...absolutely no alert measures ... are necessary at this time or contemplated.
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Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.
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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.