Quotes About Politics

People rarely grow in humility once they reach the White House.

I don't think I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome in a sense that I can separate the man from the White House.

As I'm learning, Republicans seem to only care about deficits when a Democrat is in the White House.

The one thing I didn't want to do was a show about the White House. I was too close to it.

When you cover the White House, which I've done on and off, it's relatively straightforward - everything the president does is news.

What stalwart Republican would stop Trump from profiteering for his businesses from the White House the way he's gamed his companies and the tax code for decades, or prevent him from letting his adult children milk their father's position to benefit his supposed 'blind trust?'

How can we even call this a Democracy when the House, the Senate, the White House, and now the Supreme Court are all controlled by the representatives of a minority group in America?

The Democrats and the mainstream media shouldn't be so quick to mock White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders for suggesting that President Trump was chosen by God to lead this country.

People aren't really honest with themselves about anything. That's one of the reasons why we ended up with Trump in the White House.

Let's face it, the White House is a treacherous place.

I asked tough questions of the Obama White House when I was at CNN and nobody freaked out. I start asking tough questions at Fox and everybody freaked out.

Am I a Democrat? Yes, I'm a Democrat. But at the end of the day, when I take the oath as a senator it won't be to do the bidding of the Democratic Party or a president in the White House. I will be there to fight for the people of South Carolina.

Why should we allow a Democrat President in the White House to use executive orders and not do the same with a Republican President?

I have a running conversation with a couple of colleagues. Mike Schmidt's one of them; some on my White House team are others; Alex Burns on the politics team is another. That just helps me not lose my place, right? We're just constantly talking about what we're hearing and where things are.

You can't be too far away from your BlackBerry because if there's a development anywhere around the world, it impacts the White House.

Manipulating an election in a small developing country doesn't have the same sort of ripple effect of electing Donald Trump into the White House.

On the 'Face the Nation' platform we are pretty consistently talking to White House officials most Sundays.

Numerous candidates lose their first White House race and try again four years later - but all of them do so after running surprisingly well the first time. No one ever talked about John Connally or Phil Gramm running again.

The Trump White House would be known for its high placement of females in key roles if the media were even remotely honest about the facts.

I'm truly a believer that Satan was behind everything that happened in that White House, and now, the Republican party. Anything that is good for the people, they're against it.

Holding political leaders accountable on behalf of voters is at the core of what I do every day in my role as Chief White House Correspondent, so to do it on the national stage at a critical moment in the primary is a responsibility I take really seriously.

I worked on Capitol Hill, I worked in the White House and I've worked in politics enough to be familiar with the basic broadstrokes of public policy.

The White House - we continue to believe that Democrats and Republicans should do what they have done 80 times, which is to raise the debt limit, and that is what we are working toward.

A visit to the White House is a coup for any foreign leader, it's a useful weapon of soft power.