White House Quotes

• There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

  Dolly Parton

  White, House, Trash

  "Andy Warhol’s Interview Interview: Dolly Parton" by Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2014.

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• It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

  Nancy Reagan

  Lonely, White, House

  "Exclusive: Nancy Reagan Misses Husband Now More Than Ever". abcnews.go.com. May 21, 2007.

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• We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That demonic spirit is oppressing us.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  White, House, Enemy

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• A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.

  Jerry Brown

  White, House, Criminals

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• What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" - and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

  Howard Zinn

  What Matters, White, House

  "The Israel Lobby, the Syrian War and the Meaning of Empire" by Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. September 12, 2016.

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• You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  White, Impossible Things, House

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Remarks at dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners of the Western Hemisphere, Washington, D.C., 29 Apr. 1962

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• The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Self, Cities

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.55, tredition

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• To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Opportunity, White, House

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

  Will Rogers

  Atheist, Lying, People

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• Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury.

  George W. Bush

  White, House, Dynamics

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• The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

  Joe Biden

  War, White, House

  "Biden '88 as McCain '08". www.politico.com. August 19, 2008.

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

  Linda Tripp

  Fighting, Media, Average

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• At the White House, they caught another fence jumper earlier today. It was Obama trying to get out.

  David Letterman

  White, House, Trying

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• I was never invited to the White House.

  Bobby Fischer

  White, House, Invited

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• The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, 'You know what? Let's just grab lunch.'

  Bill Maher

  Lunch, White, Talking

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• When you think about President Obama, he gives the president of China a five-star dinner at the White House. When somebody rips me off I don't give them five star dinners.

  Donald Trump

  Stars, Rip, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again

  Ron Suskind

  Writing, White, House

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• With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house.

  Diahann Carroll

  White, House, President

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of the recent security failures. When asked if he had any other ideas, he said, 'Uh, make the sidewalk lower?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Ideas, White, House

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• On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

  Gwen Ifill

  White, House, Immigration

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• It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Men, Doors, White

  "It's time to take the men-only sign off the White House door" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2003.

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• We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ideas, White, House

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• Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wise, Morning, Jobs

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.198, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm going to do everything I can to help Hillary Clinton get elected and I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that Donald Trump never comes within shouting distance of the White House.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Distance, White, House

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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