Quotes About Government

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

I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.

If you look at the Constitution, the two clauses of the Constitution make it very clear the president shall nominate, and the Senate shall provide advice and consent. It's been since 1888 that a Senate of a different party than the president in the White House confirmed a Supreme Court nominee.

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

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

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

Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.

I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

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.

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.

Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.

The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.

To me, it's the White House and always will be.

I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries.

The White House is a strange place.

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.

The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.