Quotes About Influence

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

I think the White House is a better place for not having a Steve Bannon in it.

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

If you think the Obama White House and Ben Rhodes lying to the American people about Iran - and laughing about it - was bad, just wait until Hillary Clinton's spin doctors get hold of the media.

The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.

The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

In the White House, I had influence. At Breitbart, I had power.

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'

Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.