Larry Speakes

White House press spokesman for Ronald Reagan.

"Those who talk don’t know what is going on and those who know what is going on won’t talk."

"You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it."
Larry Speakes Quotes (BrainyQuote)

29 June - President Reagan announces that the SALT II treaty is "dead" and that he will continue to abide by it. White House press spokesman Larry Speakes clarifies this by explaining that the president "has no idea what he is saying."
Dave Barry's Concise History Of 1986

Cartoon from the David Levine Gallery in The New York Review of Books.

David Laws MP

David wows them in the Commons.

MP for Yeovil, Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.

Gregory Barker

The Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle speaks on dogs, and barks at the government:

"The kennel men and other hunt servants who know all the hounds by name and have nurtured them and brought them up since they were puppies will have to stand by and watch them be slaughtered en masse. The blood of those hounds will be on the hands of this government, who are dog haters."

Ferreted out by Smallweed (The Guardian) Saturday July 12, 2003