Pierre Salinger Quotes

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

- Pierre Salinger

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

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

- Pierre Salinger

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

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

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

- Pierre Salinger

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

- Pierre Salinger

I am not very introspective.

- Pierre Salinger

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

- Pierre Salinger

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

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

- 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

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

- Pierre Salinger

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

- Pierre Salinger

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

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

- Pierre Salinger

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

- Pierre Salinger

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

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

- Pierre Salinger

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

- Pierre Salinger

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

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

Whole generations have forgotten history.

- Pierre Salinger

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

- Pierre Salinger

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

- Pierre Salinger

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

- Pierre Salinger

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

- Pierre Salinger