Larry Speakes

Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.