Top 7 Quotes by Larry Speakes

If you tell the same story five times, it's true.

If you tell the same story five times, it's true.

Stories, Five, Ifs

"Let Obama's Reagan Revolution Begin" by Frank Rich, www.nytimes.com. January 8, 2011.

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

Larry Speakes

Hunting, Finding Yourself, President

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

Larry Speakes

News, Politics, Stage

Larry Speakes, Robert Pack (1989). “Speaking out: the Reagan presidency from inside the White House”

Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.

Larry Speakes

Knows

Larry Speakes, Robert Pack (1989). “Speaking out: the Reagan presidency from inside the White House”

Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face.

Larry Speakes

White, Air, Giving