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27 quotes by Pierre Salinger

Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925 – October 16, 2004) was a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a United States Senator in 1964 and was campaign manager for the Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign. He later became known for his work as an ABC News correspondent, and in particular for his stories on the American hostage crisis in Iran, the bombing of Pan Am Flight...
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The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

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

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I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

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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.

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The things that stand out are often the oddities.

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

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A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

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

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

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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... →

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I am not very introspective.

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One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

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

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