Pierre Salinger Quotes

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

My head was always in books.

I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.

I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.

I'm still a bit of a reading glutton, I think, because I browse, read a bit of the back copy, flip through the book, read a bit of the text, and if it still seems fascinating, I read it. That's why my bedside table is so cluttered: I want to imbibe it all.

I get newspapers from Britain and other countries twice a week and read them almost page to page. Sometimes I find I'm reading things I don't even need to read, because my mind is still hungry.

I've learned to appreciate the thinking of John Kennedy.

The John F. Kennedy presidency, with its glittering court of Camelot, cemented the impression that it was the Democrats who represented the thinking men and women of America.

I've always been a voracious reader.

I read almost everything that comes my way.

My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all kinds of things - archeology, anthropology.

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.