One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn’t need contributions. – Pierre Salinger
I’ve had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness. – Pierre Salinger
I lost two of the greatest men I’ve ever known to assassination – and a son to suicide. – Pierre Salinger
He’s the president of the United States. He’s got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he’s got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make? – Pierre Salinger
America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show. – Pierre Salinger
President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information. – Pierre Salinger
I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich. – Pierre Salinger
Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn’t go to sleep at night-he talks and talks. – Pierre Salinger
A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States. – Pierre Salinger
Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband’s assassination. She was especially wonderful to me. – Pierre Salinger
There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era. – Pierre Salinger
As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie. – Pierre Salinger
I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963. – Pierre Salinger
Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history. – Pierre Salinger
I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis. – Pierre Salinger
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. – Pierre Salinger
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. – Pierre Salinger
The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I’d been in the day before. – Pierre Salinger
