Ed Gillespie Quotes

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

I spend a substantial amount of my time endeavoring to fend off questions, and worry terribly that I might end up being too clear.

If that comes up, I'll just confuse them.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I didn't say I was running, did I?

That’s a very good question but I’m afraid that I don’t have a very good answer.

Twenty five years in Washington has taught me never to tell a lie to a reporter.

I would engage in a sort of syntax destruction that would sound like I was answering the question but actually was not.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it’s quite conscious.

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please. You're not going to get me with that question today, buddy...I'm a veteran at this, buddy. Can't get that with me, buddy. Not today.

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

If you guys would stop asking questions about the Iraq War, there would be no problem at all.

If newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

A good politician doesn't tell you what he's going to do next.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you want to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

I feel genuinely sad and bewildered about news reports that are not true.

Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people