Michael Deaver Quotations

When we were engaged in the intensive parts of the investigation or trial preparation, I did not have time for anything else.

Maureen's hoping she can go up and see her father, too, ... Good Morning America.

He needed to reassure us on the economy and reassure people there is a future they can be positive about.

He needed to reassure us on the economy, and reassure people there is a future they can be positive about. People have been saying no to that question everyone asks ? 'Am I going to be better off a year from now than I am today?' ? and that has been going on for the past two or three years.

His thinking was that he wanted to leave the impression of the commentary, rather than of a talking head. He thought the substance was going to last longer.

He was fun to be around. Reagan would light up when he came into the room.

I think we were telling a joke, Brady and the president and I, walking out.

To me, that's when I thought, there was a chance at that point that he might not make it.

It made him a lot more stubborn. He said, 'You know, I think there's a reason I've been spared, and I'm gonna follow my own instincts from here on out' And he did.

It's something that now, with instant communications, we really want from a president. It's something that the national psyche needs when there's a disaster, a threat, a trauma. We want somebody there to tell us we will survive, we will get through it. It's like I used to say of Reagan, he was America, and America was him. That's what we want.

When you're talking to the media, be a well, not a fountain.

I think it's very dangerous for a free society to have all the information distilled and packaged by our government and given to us. Do we know to this day who we killed in Iraq? I don't think so. If bringing war into the living room means that we as a people will say we don't want to do it that way anymore we want to figure out other ways to solve these conflicts, then I would say that photography and television have done us a great service.

This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.

The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.