Briefing Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.
— Marlin Fitzwater
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The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own…
— Denis Waitley
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As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.
— Scott McClellan
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The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent…
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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We are sorry about [the E3] media briefings, specifically for those who were expecting to see Nintendo show something about ‘Super Mario’ or ‘Legend of…
— Satoru Iwata
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Press plays "gotcha"; limit press briefings.
— Newt Gingrich
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These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on…
— George W. Bush
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There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press…
— Ronald Steel
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Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?
— Robert Breault
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Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to…
— Tom Brokaw
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All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases…
— Jeff Gannon
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Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about…
— Sean William Scott
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He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm…
— Russ Feingold
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The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves.
— David Letterman
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
— Robert Genn
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Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect…
— Wilfrid Sheed
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Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the…
— Daniel Hannan
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George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.
— Rush Limbaugh
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The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this…
— Bill Maher
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No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they…
— Theresa May
Who Wrote These Briefing Quotes
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