Top 46 Quotes & Sayings by Sean Spicer

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Sean Spicer

Sean Michael Spicer is a former American political aide who served as the 30th White House Press Secretary and as White House Communications Director under President Donald Trump in 2017. Spicer was communications director of the Republican National Committee from 2011 to 2017, and its chief strategist from 2015 to 2017.

Why aren't we talking about Hillary Clinton getting debate questions ahead of time? That's a pretty valid attempt to influence an election. Somebody giving her the debate questions and the answers of an election.
I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.
The press has a right to go out and write stories... but I think similarly, and what Donald Trump has proven... is that when people are wrong, he's going to hold them accountable, and he's going to correct the record.
There is a bias; there is a Washington mentality. — © Sean Spicer
There is a bias; there is a Washington mentality.
I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.
There's no one better to imitate than Carly Fiorina when it comes to a successful woman.
I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island.
I was increasingly disappointed in how so many of the members here of the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job: the bias at which they come from it at.
It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.
Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.
What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady - about their roles, hiding things, not releasing things.
I don't think, Donald Trump doesn't think, no one thinks that a foreign entity should be interfering with a foreign election.
I went to school in Connecticut, at Connecticut College, and then really started to get bitten by the political bug.
I think that there's become a very clickbait mentality among a lot of reporters, where they're more interested in their clip or their click than they are about the truth and the facts.
Donald Trump recognizes that a good leader is going to protect America's interests by making sure that we have a relationship with Russia: that our interests are protected, not theirs.
I think the thing that you've seen with Donald Trump is that he doesn't - he doesn't look to the past and say, 'I've got to conform to these precedents.' — © Sean Spicer
I think the thing that you've seen with Donald Trump is that he doesn't - he doesn't look to the past and say, 'I've got to conform to these precedents.'
If the charge against me is that I fight to win, and I'm intense, then I'm guilty.
Kellyanne is the first female campaign manager of any major party to win a presidential general election. In her position, Kellyanne will continue her role as a close adviser to the president-elect and will work with senior leadership to effectively message and execute the administration's legislative priorities and actions.
I did some internships, worked on some campaigns, and then moved to D.C.
I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'
There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong.
I think you gotta go forward with the things you campaigned on.
I have spent some time talking to Rex Tillerson. He's an amazing human being. He's an American success story, not just in his business life. He's a rags-to-riches success story. He stated working at 8, lived in a one-bedroom house until the time he went to college, and grew to become the CEO of one of the world's largest companies.
We all make mistakes. I make them all the time.
What are we doing to make sure that people don't get the debate questions ahead of time - because I can tell you this: if my boss at the time, Reince Priebus, had gotten the debate questions, and handed them off, he would have been driven out of this town on a stake, and Donald Trump would have been vilified.
To be clear, any attempt to hack or to do anything nefarious is wrong and illegal.
Donald Trump did exactly what he said he'd do on the campaign trail and frankly what we should have more of, which is luring companies to stay here by easing regulations, by lowering the tax burden so that more Americans can have U.S. jobs.
I do have a problem with how 'Politico' has engaged in covering politics, especially on our side. I think it is tweet-happy, it is clickbait in many cases, and it's devoid of facts.
I think when Donald Trump looks at the energy sector, he sees that as a place to really create wealth for this country and for individuals, to put Americans back to work with good-paying jobs that have benefits.
The number one focus of the American people has been jobs and the economy.
As a Harvard Ph.D. economist and U.C. Irvine professor, Dr. Navarro has been instrumental in challenging the prevailing Washington orthodoxy on so-called free trade.
I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society. — © Sean Spicer
I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.
Kellyanne is a tireless and tenacious advocate of the president-elect's agenda and has amazing insights on how to effectively communicate the administration's message as part of the senior team in the West Wing.
There's no question, I think, as more and more people get to know Rex Tillerson, they're going to be really proud of the choice that Donald Trump made as our next secretary of state.
If you want to serve in a Trump administration, you're going to serve this country, not yourself.
I think most people aren't really privy to how stories are developed and what stories are - make it to the front page or to the mainstream media, whether it's in print or in broadcast. And I think they'd be shocked and disappointed to see some of the bias that exists in some of the stories that don't get told - or the manner in which they are told.
Not everybody who supports Donald Trump, not everyone who supports Hilary Clinton, are exactly the kind of people that you want as supporters.
There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people. I don't think it's unique to my profession.
Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent about it. If you tell everyone, 'Here's what's going on. Here's the process; here are the people that are playing a role' - that's being transparent.
I believe that if you want to do a good job at something, then you're always analyzing the job that you've done to see if you can do it better.
It is a good thing to start fresh.
Mr. Icahn will be a leader in helping American entrepreneurs shed job-killing regulations that stifle economic growth.
I think the media, by and large, if you look at surveys over the years, has never been conservative-leaning by any measure.
You talk about a guy like Rex Tillerson, right? I don't know what the guy makes at ExxonMobil, but it's one of the top companies in the world. — © Sean Spicer
You talk about a guy like Rex Tillerson, right? I don't know what the guy makes at ExxonMobil, but it's one of the top companies in the world.
Every single person who enters Trump Tower, you get to see them go up, go down, they talk to the press.
If we want to take a bunch of phrases and run them through a Google and say 'Hey, who else has said them,' I can come up with the list in five minutes.
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