Fitzwater Quotes

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

The White House is a strange place. - Marlin Fitzwater

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

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. - Marlin Fitzwater

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. - Marlin Fitzwater

It is like a mountain has fallen. - Marlin Fitzwater

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. - Marlin Fitzwater

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. - Marlin Fitzwater

I sent boxes to him (Fitzwater) and asked him to distribute boxes as he saw fit. Soldiers would send a thank you note and often add another name. - MJ Eckert

I am appalled by the whole handling of this. - Marlin Fitzwater