"Press plays "gotcha"; limit press briefings." — Newt Gingrich

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• 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… — 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… — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
• We are sorry about [the E3] media briefings, specifically for those who were expecting to see Nintendo show something about… — Satoru Iwata
• These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my… — George W. Bush
• There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small… — 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… — Tom Brokaw
• All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings.… — Jeff Gannon
• Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which… — Sean William Scott
• He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received… — Russ Feingold

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