Quotes from Pierre Salinger

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

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

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

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.

If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

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

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.

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

I am not very introspective.

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

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

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

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

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

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