Quotes About Transition

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years.

Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.

Life after the White House found Dad enjoying having his grandchildren around and letting go of all the enormous burden he shouldered throughout his public life.

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.

I moved out eventually of the White House and moved into a townhouse with a group of girls while I was in college.

Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

Both the guys in Nightwish and I have experiences with previous band breakups and all emotions that come with it. It's almost like dating.

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.

I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.

One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.

It's always a special game when you play against your previous club.

Replacing someone who has scored more than 30 goals in the previous season is not easy.

Maybe it's like this: If you haven't done all that much right in the previous season, than perhaps you are more open to change.

We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.

Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.

I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.