Briefing Quotes

• The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

  Marlin Fitzwater

  Believe, Today, Lost

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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 the ambassador from saying anything at all.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Thinking, Paper, Ambassadors

  Address in Edinburgh, Scotland, September 8, 1977.

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• 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 find these people and we will bring them to justice.

  George W. Bush

  People, Justice, Peaceful

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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 missile silos.

  Sean William Scott

  Military, Agriculture, Waiting

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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

  Funny, Sarcastic, Writing

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• [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 perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

  Alan Bennett

  Reading, Facts, Antithesis

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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

  Feelings, Has Beens

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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 mind.

  Denis Waitley

  Mind, Important, Lectures

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• For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

  Robert Genn

  Self, Going Out, Planning

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• Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and really work to master various subjects that come before my desk, I'm still not an expert on a huge amount of the stuff that we work on.

  Barack Obama

  Book, Experts, Stuff

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Team, Hands, Knowing

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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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

  White, House, Rooms

  Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.10, PublicAffairs

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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 are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.

  Theresa May

  Jobs, Home, Matter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Half, Significant, Surrogates

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• Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.

  Frank Rich

  Stories, Addresses, Speech

  "Frank Rich: The Culture Warriors Get Laid Off" by Frank Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2009.

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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 my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'

  George W. Bush

  Morning, Intellectual, Skins

  At the Gridiron Club dinner; quoted in National Review (16 April 2001).

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• The White House press corps isn't there at a press briefing. It's not... They're not news gatherers there. There really isn't any media.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, White, House

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Press plays "gotcha"; limit press briefings.

  Newt Gingrich

  Play, Limits, Presses

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• I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

  Mike Rogers

  Community, Information, Way

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• The thing that I try to remember is that in the briefing room it's not a debate. I'm not supposed to go in there and win a debate with the press corps. If that's what I try to do, then I'm going to lose.

  Josh Earnest

  Winning, Trying, Rooms

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• The one thing that I remember from all of my intelligence briefings and my dealings with the Russians is that when you deal with the Russians, you have to deal with them from strength, not from weakness.

  Leon Panetta

  Weakness, Remember, Deals

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.

  John Linder

  Technology, Hearing, Experts

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• If I were just to read briefing books or I were just to engage in the political back and forth, would I have heard what a big problem mental health is in New Hampshire? Would I have heard people say they're really worried about the impact on young people because New Hampshire has the highest tuition and debt problems in the country? i'm not sure I would have.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Book, Health

  "Welcome to Hillary Clinton's classroom" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 22, 2015.

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• At the G-20 summit, the White House accidentally listed a phone-sex line for journalists seeking an on-record briefing call for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. To which Bill said, 'Boy, did they get the wrong number.'

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Boys, Numbers

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• [Donald Trump] said that he has intelligence briefings. He's heard stuff that body language. It's very wild to me.

  Eric Bolling

  Body, Stuff, Language

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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