Briefing Quotes

29 Briefing quotes by 27 unique authors

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness. — Marlin Fitzwater
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
As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room. — Scott McClellan
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.
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
Press plays "gotcha"; limit press briefings. — Newt Gingrich
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
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
Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed? — Robert Breault
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
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
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
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
The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves. — David Letterman
For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit. — Robert Genn
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
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
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
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
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
My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings,… — Dee Dee Myers
The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will… — George W. Bush
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and… — Alan Bennett
I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing… — Eoin Colfer
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than… — P.J. O'Rourke

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