Quotes About White House

The Obama camp, the White House, and the media all condemned Romney before they condemned the attacks. Obama thought it more worthwhile to hit Romney for what he was doing than the terrorists for what they did. Romney got hit first.

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.

George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.

Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?

The cost of living is first on all of our minds this important year. Yet the President [Nixon] has decided that it is a year for travel. I ask–when is he going to make a "Trip to Peking" in regard to the basic problems facing us in the United States this year? He is willing to go halfway 'round the world--yet he doesn't have time to walk ten blocks from the White House in Washington and look at the lives people are living under Phase II. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

You didn't improvise that speech back there, she said. How long were you working on that? Day or two. Got a bunch of it from The West Wing . That was the only show I was never allowed to watch when I was a kid, so it's my favourite. I wonder who my dad will have as VP if he gets into the White House? I'm rooting for a cloud of bats. What about you, Stevie? You know him better than I do.

We were at the White House a couple of weeks ago, the man says, they had a state dinner for Prince Charles and Camilla. Listen, those royals are just the finest people, no pretensions to them whatsoever. You can talk to Prince Charles about anything. Billy nods. There's a silence. Just in time he asks, What did you talk about? Hunting, the man answers.

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who was a commander in the Naval Reserves, tried several times to persuade Mattis to appear on Sunday talk shows on behalf of the administration. The answer was always no. "Sean," Mattis finally said, "I've killed people for a living. If you call me again, I'm going to fucking send you to Afghanistan. Are we clear?

Despite almost daily reports of chaos and discord in the White House, the public did not know how bad the internal situation actually was. Trump was always shifting, rarely fixed, erratic. He would get in a bad mood, something large or small would infuriate him, and he would say about the KORUS trade agreement, "We're withdrawing today.

The very day after Lincoln's election, an obscure Springfield neighbor named Henry Fawcett dispatched a note begging the president-elect to let him "go with you to the White House as your Body Servant." Fawcett, who listed among his qualifications his experience ringing a local church bell when Lincoln won the nomination, offered "to carry your Messages and so forth…even Shaving you as well.

Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

Call them, tell them I never said it," he urged me. Contacting the White House Situation Room for the first time, I reached Rahm and David. Their response

Companies that manufactured aspirin petitioned the White House. "The White House called and told us to cease and desist," recalled Foege. "Do a new study." The aspirin makers had been able to force the CDC to scrap its findings and slow down science. Foege had resigned after that. "The fact that they would risk the lives of children—it just bothered me so much," he said.

Whatever was happening in the White House was happening without the benefit of the people Bossert felt qualified to advise the president.

Whatever was happening in the White House was happening without the benefit of the people Bossert felt qualified to advise the president. "The chains had been broken," he said. "None of the people who had been involved in the last fifteen years of thinking about pandemics were in the conversation. They were deep state.

I love all of the government conspiracy stuff. I love all of the shady backroom White House dealings that are going on, and all of the politics involved. That kind of stuff is just fascinating to me.

New Rule: It's okay for the president to play ball in the house. It's easy to judge and say this scene detracts from the dignity of the White House--until you consider the end zone is between Clinton's semen stain and where Bush OD'd on a pretzel.

McMaster said that he believed Mattis and Tillerson had concluded that the president and the White House were crazy. As a result, they sought to implement and even formulate policy on their own without interference or involvement from McMaster, let alone the president.

This degradation of the American experiment is real. This is tangible. Truth is no longer governing the White House statements. Nobody believes—even the people who believe in him somehow believe in him without believing what he says.

A heartfelt thanks to Evelyn M. Duffy, my assistant on five books that have covered four presidents. President Trump presents a particular hurdle because of the deep emotions and passions he brings out in supporters and critics. Evelyn immediately grasped that the challenge was to get new information, authenticate it and put it in context while reporting as deeply as possible inside the White House.