Spokesman Quotations

But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music.

The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.

I've become a representative of the American Diabetes Association, and then I just became national spokesman for the American Heart Association for a campaign called The Heart of Diabetes, which brings the awareness of cardio-vascular disease to diabetics.

I never saw myself as a spokesman for a generation. It was all a bit heavy for me. I saw myself as a songwriter and wrote for myself, which I still do, and I also wanted to communicate with my audience.

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying.

But the FBI spokesman won't tell us anything else ... They won't tell the people of Philadelphia who in four weeks have to decide whether to re-elect a mayor or not,

We take the last statement of the Indian spokesman welcoming our initiative.

We look forward to welcoming them on to the Partypoker.com Million V for their honeymoon where company spokesman and leading poker ambassador Mike Sexton (World Poker Tour) will toast to their future happiness.

He was a commercial spokesman and a barely adequate actor. That means he needs ... public acceptance, and if he doesn't get public acceptance, he doesn't have much of a future if he wants to make any money.

Kelly has been a warrior. He has had some real struggles and battled through. He's an emotional leader, and he's definitely been a spokesman for our club. He also puts a bit of reality in what we do for a living and what a great life we have.

I think Tony obviously has credibility ... He's somebody that the press respects. He'll obviously have to tone things down a little bit if he's criticized the president on some past issues. He's the president's spokesman now and he can't differ with the president.

Jason wanted me to be the spokesman for Nissan when he was with them,

Reports of a troop build up are a complete fabrication. We reject such statements in their totality and restraint should be exercised by the spokesman on the Pakistan side.

People look for me to be the spokesman too much, and I'm not. That's in deference to him. I've been there. I understand. He needs to do most of the talking because he's in the Hall of Fame, and I'm not.

Joining the EA Sports team is a great way to cap off my college career. Growing up, I played EA Sports games all the time and to now be the spokesman for 'NCAA March Madness 06' is incredible.

Why wouldn't the coaches be available to the media? The coach is the spokesman for the team. We don't receive any complaints about head coaches not being available enough.

We have noticed that the spokesman for U.S. government reaffirmed that the United States adheres to the one-China policy and opposes 'Taiwan independence'.

Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.

you do have a certain responsibility to be a spokesman for the scientific community and to represent people.

The fact that he is a leader in the Senate and is going to have to be the spokesman for these things, it does make it a little harder and he may have to back off.

We're the spokesman for tree farmers across the nation for the next year.

This was extreme circumstances,'' said Pat Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball.

We are very pleased by it. Randy Daniels is a very effective spokesman for the Republican Party, someone who's got a lot of respect throughout the state.

is not a good spokesman for this issue. When he says things like 'Here's a warning,' then in the next breath says the president is doing a great job, that just raises suspicions.

It was wrong for the European Union's foreign affairs spokesman Javier Solana to rule out the use of force. It is wrong for Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to echo him.

Coach Gable is the spokesman for wrestling in the United States and there?s no bigger name in the sport than his, ... It was significant for our program to get the kind of exposure we need to present to the wrestling community not only on the local level but all over the country.

Archie was always the spokesman for the Stewart family. But he's not the namesake.

A spokesman for the Greek government said that they would be allowed to off-load and transit through Greece soon.

This is not a control issue; it's a facilitator issue. We've agreed that the Mayor's Office would be the spokesman on the status of discussions. The team deferred to our office so that we make sure we're sending out the same message.

It's just maturity, ... It comes with age. I've always been a leader on the field, but as a spokesman or voice of the team, I always was doing my own thing. As a spokesman for this team, I just had to take on a different role.

It was somewhere along the chain a mistranslation of what the Chinese foreign minister spokesman said, which amounts to that the judicial process was under way,

For a long time, most intellectuals saw him as a spokesman for capitalism and for making money and getting ahead, a view of America many have had.

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.

I needed Quentin. I knew he would be very loud as a spokesman for Italian B movies.

I never dreamed I'd be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool.

I'm not trying to become the spokesman for this kind of thing, but you've got to look hard and close at this,

In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy - Ken Singleton - Flanny, and Cakes - the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer - were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse.

He's still doing better than he had during most of his career. He's not necessarily a beloved superstar that advertisers want to attach their ride to. The BALCO stain certainly affected it. But a lot of the lack of interest in Barry as a corporate spokesman has to do with his 20 years antagonizing media and fans.

By board policy, I am the lead spokesman for the negotiating team, but the board meets every month in closed session to discuss negotiations. The negotiating team -- all four of us -- takes direction from the board.

He allowed his spokesman to spend the first 24 hours of the Waco tragedy distancing the president from the calamity, before he stepped forward himself to back the attorney general and accept his own accountability.

The head of intelligence for the NYPD is the former deputy director of the CIA, ... I would take his word before I would take some spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security's word.

The important thing is not the spokesman, but what the spokesman says, and what the countries will say.

A lot of times, other people turn me on to new people that are doing stuff, so I don't consider myself a spokesman for everything that's going on in jazz.

A Greek government spokesman said he anticipated that they would be able to land soon and move through Greece to their posts.

And in the interests of full disclosure, that NARAL ad did run here on CNN. But since NARAL yanked it, it's not running on this network, obviously, anymore. We are running the Progress for America ad defending John Roberts against such attacks. We should also note that NARAL had told us and other news organizations that its ad was running on Fox News Channel and we reported that, but a Fox spokesman tells us that NARAL never approached Fox to buy any airtime.