38 Quotes by Pierre Salinger

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

I am not very introspective.

Whole generations have forgotten history.