Quotes About White House

To the west, upriver, was the compact epicenter of national government: Congress, the civilian agencies, the White House, the monuments and museums, all arranged symmetrically as if the federal establishment were a formal garden. The president was weak, it was universally believed; the Congress was enfeebled by partisan divisions; it was as if the balance wheel had broken and the real work of the government had stopped, but the garden remained immaculate.

Since a president can easily slide into a comfort zone of sycophants, it can't hurt him to see a few demonstrators with rude T-shirts injecting a small dose of irreverence into a triumphant appearance. In the age of stage-managed events for television, however, White House aides don't like it.

If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.

All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.

Good news. President Bush is creating thousands of new jobs. Unfortunately, all of them are at the White House.

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

The White House says that the unemployment rate is good news because it means more people are looking for jobs. More good news like that, and everyone at the White House will be looking for jobs.

The health care problem is not solved in the white house, its solved in YOUR HOUSE

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.

When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.

I don't expect that Albert Gore is going to become president, and I certainly hope we never see Tipper Gore in the White House. Can you imagine Tipper saying, "Just say no"?

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House, make no mistake about it.

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

I am impressed with America's capacity for change, and their ability to bring someone as inspirational as Barack Obama into the White House.

More than any other previous occupant of the White House, Roosevelt understood that the way to manipulate reporters was to let them imagine they were helping shape policy. A "consultation" here, a confidence shared there, and the scribe was transformed into a pen for hire.

In 1902, the Senator had been banned from the White House for punching out a colleague, mid-debate.

He is recognized as the world authority on big American game mammals, and is an ornithologist of some note. Stooping to pick a speck of brown fluff off the White House lawn, he will murmur, "Very early for a fox sparrow!"84

Members of the White House Gang admit to "queer sensations" at the sight of this great barrel bearing down upon them, and half expect it to burst out of the Presidential shirt. Roosevelt

As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.

The white men on the Brinkley set were trying not to grin, like cheap lawyers at a ten-car pileup: Uh, did that mean Senator Dole didn't think all the facts were out? Didn't he believe the White House, that North and Poindexter were the only ones who knew? The Bobster dropped an eyebrow and rasped: "Aghh, don't think Ripley'd believe that.