- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Briefing Quotes
On catching up, diplomacy, and the modern press briefing.
These quotes use "briefing" across different settings - friends keeping someone updated on campus drama, and a diplomat recalling a briefing about a country's early transition toward democracy. See more in Big quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things like 'I'm A Celebrity,' when they're going to a trial, they might reset the camera for a bit or give a briefing that's not on camera. But 'Big Brother,' you see everything.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's something inherently interesting in the Monday morning quarterback: the guy who, you know, sits at one end of the briefing room and tells everyone what they should've done and how they've screwed up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be with you at the crash, you've got to put them on the manifest.' And so I was always of the view to almost leave no stone unturned when you're up there briefing the Hill.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, Trump's Oval Office is like Grand Central Station. People try briefing him and someone comes in and interrupts him. People just sort of walk in without being previously announced in any meaningful way.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did get a letter from the speaker of the House urging - enjoining me not to brief Secretary Clinton, and lots of cards and letters from people about not briefing Mr. Trump.
- George W. Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020