Answers Quote by Ari Fleischer

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…

— Larry Speakes

The Trump White House has employed several different strategies for sidestepping uncomfortable questions. There has been a rightward tilt at press conferences and briefings.…

— Brian Stelter

You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside…

— Dee Dee Myers

There's no question almost press secretaries talk about the sense of serving two masters. On the one hand you want to protect the president's…

— Dee Dee Myers

The biggest challenge of being the press secretary is trying to be aware of all of the things that are happening, both around the…

— Josh Earnest

Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type…

— Stephen Colbert

The idea of negotiating with the President of the United States runs contrary to everything that the Republicans have done since January 20, 2009.

— Keith Olbermann

Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Dan Pfeiffer for me probably the most concerning at all because he is the [President Barack Obama] strategic communications adviser. What's the strategy ?

— Eric Bolling

Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being written by corporate…

— Bill Moyers

Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts…

— Vladimir Putin

I think, for the good of the country and the fact that you don't want a question coming up every time there's a decision…

— Rudy Giuliani