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


Marlin Fitzwater

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We expect to reveal some significant information at the press briefing.
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MARIO VARGAS LLOSA As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the Whit...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN The world economy has lost much of its momentum and that has affected us too.
MANFRED SCHNEIDER I believe they knew they would have lost today.
LANCE LUBIN I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.
OLD CHINESE PROVERB I'm kind of skeptical about its ultimate usefulness.
JOE WILCOX I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH I do not believe the press is guilty of the charge that it abandoned its healthy skepticism in Iraq ...
BOB ZELNICK The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There are more references in the Koran than the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus. -Julia W-.
JULIA W Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the...
JUNIUS The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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CHRISTOPHER PIKE A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its ...
ROBERT TROUT The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
PETER DRUCKER The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
PETER F. DRUCKER It's outlived its usefulness. It would make a nice museum.
DUKE GLOVER A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territo...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI The environmental rationale has been eliminated. It's outlived its usefulness and no longer needs to...
ED MURPHY The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent)...
BEN BERNANKE "As often as you eat this bread and drink this cup".
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NAOTO KAN The Olympics has lost its soul.
IRMA ZANDL TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.
DAVID WALLIAMS The Tommy brand has lost a bit of its luster.
WENDY LIEBMANN Children's publishing has lost one of its touchstones.
KATE JACKSON FEMA has lost its way.
JOHN DINGELL I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.
JOSé RIZAL Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materi...
PILGRIMS Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materi...
PEACE PILGRIM I believe that the Russian concern has its logic.
WANG GUANGYA It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
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ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER I believe there is a product transition issue going on. I think that it has lost the mindshare of it...
ERIK SUPPIGER The world has lost its quintessential romantic icon.
DAVID ANSEN Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
BILLY CORGAN There have been incidents today, and we just need to encourage (and) press the parties to do everyth...
SANDY BERGER I think we had 22 credentials for press last year and we had 78 today.
DONNA ORENDER The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to ...
CYNTHIA OZICK We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
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ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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