Victoria Clarke

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Torie Clarke on the cover of her 2006 book

Victoria C. "Torie" Clarke (born May 1959) is an American public relations consultant who has served in the private sector and in three Republican presidential administrations, most notably as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under Donald Rumsfeld.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Clarke is a graduate of George Washington University and began her career as a photographer for the since-defunct Washington Star. She was President of Bozell Eskew Advertising, Vice President of the National Cable Telecommunications Association, and the Washington office director for the public-relations firm of Hill & Knowlton. She has served as the press secretary to Senator John McCain and held positions on the staff of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. She subsequently moved to the Pentagon to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs during President George W. Bush's first term in office, under Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Clarke currently serves as the Senior Advisor of Communications and Government Relations for Comcast Corporation.

Clarke has been a close colleague of Mary Matalin since the Reagan administration. Clarke often filled in for Matalin on the show Equal Time during its run on CNBC in the 1990s. Clarke is the author of Lipstick on a Pig: Winning In the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game (2006, ISBN 0-7432-7116-5), a book about spin in politics. Clarke appeared on the February 7, 2006, episode of The Daily Show to promote it.

She is a frequent guest on the roundtable on ABC News'This Week with George Stephanopoulos. On May 20, she made her first appearance on the radio show of Tony Kornheiser.

Clarke is a Republican. She is married to J. Brian Graham, a Democrat. She is the mother of three children (two sons and a daughter). She and her family live in suburban Washington, D.C.