Pierre Salinger Quotes
"Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: HusbAssassination)
"A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: Funny, First, Senate)
"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
(Related: Education, People, President, states, 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
(Related: People, America, Name, News)
"American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: People, American, Being, President, Will)
"As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: Family, First, Loyalty)
"Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: History, Understanding)
"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
(Related: Time, Work, Policy, Day, Difference, Hell, President, states, United)
"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
(Related: Son, Emotions)
"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
(Related: America, Cities)
"I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: People, First)
"I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: Happiness, Tragedy)
"Whole generations have forgotten history."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: History, Generations)
"On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: Obvious, President)
"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
(Related: Man, Night, Sleep, Talk)
"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
(Related: Brother, People, Problems)
"President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: Information, President)
"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
(Related: Day, President, Press, states, United, World)
"The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: Death, Life, American, Nixon, Resignation)
"The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: Scandal)
"The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: War, 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
(Related: Children, Youth)
"To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: Life)
"I may be plucky, but I am not stupid."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: May)