Marlin Fitzwater Quotations

I am appalled by the whole handling of this.

I think this has a pervasive impact on how he conducts foreign policy on a number of levels. There's a perception the president is distracted and in trouble.

It would have been confined to the vice-president. By not telling anyone for 24 hours, it made it a White House story. It becomes a story about the White House handling of it.

It's a special enigma of President Reagan, that people who were closest to him still would have trouble telling you what it is that makes him tick.

If you wanted to tell stories, he could tell them into the night. I used to kid that every story he had ended in a near-death experience. He didn't brag, which was a big part of his charm. He was a man's man and an intellectual to boot.

He always made me a little nervous, to know that there was this fly on the wall that we knew nothing about.

I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.

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

The White House is a strange place.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.