MARLIN FITZWATER

No White House staff person wants to conflict with the First Lady who goes home and has the ear of the President all night.

Mr. [Ross] Perot's paranoia knows no bounds.

When you buy a Presidential candidate, you buy his party and you buy 20,000 appointees you never heard of.

First Ladies have been through a lot by the time their husbands get to the Presidency.

The White House is a strange place.

I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.

Receding power rides a swift horse.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

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

When you're dealing with the Middle East, 2000 years is the normal wait for something to happen.

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

The White House is a strange place.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

We need some economists to say that [trade] protectionism is not as dangerous as most economists seem to think it is.

... a paranoid person with delusions.

Any time you’re standing at the podium at the White House and talking about Congressional leaders, you’re probably getting yourself into trouble.

Every man makes his own pressure.

Mr. [Ross] Perot's paranoia knows no bounds.

Not in my lifetime.

Our democratic institutions are adversarial.

Pray for rain!

Receding power rides a swift horse.

When you buy a Presidential candidate, you buy his party and you buy 20,000 appointees you never heard of.

When you're dealing with the Middle East, 2000 years is the normal wait for something to happen.

No White House staff person wants to conflict with the First Lady who goes home and has the ear of the President all night.

First Ladies have been through a lot by the time their husbands get to the Presidency.

You’re doing the people’s business and they have a right to know.

I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.

Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.