Pierre Salinger Quotes

• Whole generations have forgotten history.

  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

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

  Pierre Salinger

• The things that stand out are often the oddities.

  Pierre Salinger

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

  Pierre Salinger

• The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

  Pierre Salinger

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

  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

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

  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

• 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

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

  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

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

  Pierre Salinger

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

  Pierre Salinger

• I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

  Pierre Salinger

• I lost two of the greatest men I’ve ever known to assassination – and a son to suicide.

  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

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

  Pierre Salinger

• I am not very introspective.

  Pierre Salinger

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Birth:	14th June, 1925
Death:	16th October, 2004
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Correspondent, Politician, Secretary

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