Bill Press Quotes

I do not speak for the White House correspondents association. I`m not a member.

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• I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Wisdom
  • Generation
  • Member

• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Community
  • Writers
  • Colleagues

• Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • House
  • Kind
  • White

• The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Long
  • House
  • White

• In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Member
  • Became
  • Reichstag

• Every member of Parliament has been sent there by Canadians, and that decision should be respected, and that member of Parliament should be respected.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Decision
  • Member
  • Parliament

• Gregg is a valuable and important member of our organization. This is a first step in recognizing his contributions and maintaining consistency among our coaches.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Important
  • Organization
  • Consistency

• I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.

  

  Florence Harding
  • House
  • Advice
  • President

• When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Association

• I always want to be a member in the audience, and I want to hear it from their point of view and see it from their point of view so I can know if it's good. But that's just my issues, not a real problem.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Good
  • Real
  • Problem

• You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

  

  Edwin Meese
  • House
  • Doubt
  • White House

• Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • War
  • House
  • White House

• One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister of England. We were located then on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, up several flights of rickety stairs, and he came all the way up those stairs to see Walter [White], largely because of certain kinds of impact, I think, that the Association seemingly was having.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Up
  • Certain
  • England

• The White House remains willing to cooperate with the committee, as we have over the past eight months, and to provide information that is responsive to the committee's legitimate oversight and investigative concerns.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • House
  • Past
  • White House

• Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The White House by the script.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • House
  • Stories
  • Script

• I've never run a plantation before. I'm not even sure what kind of association she's trying to make. If she's trying to be racist, I think that's unfortunate.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Trying
  • She
  • Racist

• If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Idea

• Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.

  

  James Smithson
  • Society
  • Man
  • Member

• 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.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Rules
  • White House
  • Spokesman

• A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

  

  Elbridge Gerry
  • Army
  • Adventure
  • Member

• She remembers reaching into her schoolbag for the letter the way you reach for a second piece of cake if it remains on the table long enough. You do it without thinking, even though you've been thinking of nothing else.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Thinking
  • Reach
  • Remains

• A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Stop
  • Doe
  • Boring

• There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Humans
  • Virtue
  • Shame

• I do not speak for the White House correspondents association. I`m not a member.

  

  Bill Press
  • White House
  • Member
  • Association