Finding yourself Quote by Larry Speakes

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

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

Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a…

— 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

“The president himself, absent any organizational rigor, often acted as his own chief of staff, or, in a sense, elevated the press secretary job…

— Michael Wolff

People really think that the only way I got to be press secretary is because I somehow had a personal family connection to the…

— Dana Perino

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the…

— Mariah Carey

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

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

I'm obsessed with how the press handles Donald Trump and how Trump handles the press.

— Chuck Todd

As a former press secretary, Im all for trying to control the press, but quote approval goes too far.

— Ari Fleischer

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests…

— Henry Adams