When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at…

One of the principles of White House coverage is that a wide variety of news outlets should be represented at briefings and press conferences.

— Brian Stelter

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it…

— Charles Kennedy

There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

MPs have no real knowledge of how to function other than via gimmick and briefings.

— Dominic Cummings

I would never say, as a member of the press, that there should be fewer press briefings. The more access, the better, no matter…

— Dana Bash

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

— Javier Marías

“If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.] ”

— Estelle Jussim

“The idea of spilling blood for the sake of oil would have seemed ludicrous.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous…

— Andrew Solomon

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and…

— Aldous Huxley

“Would that I were still a ludicrous character in his lousy book!”

— Philip Roth

Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.

— Carole Radziwill

Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.

— Mary Pilon

What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great…

— Simon Hoggart