White House Quotes - Page 24

• Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  White, House, Want

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

  Mitt Romney

  Europe, White, House

  "The New Mitt: Tougher, Shinier, with a Hint of Nixon" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon.

  Condoleezza Rice

  White, House, World

  "Condoleezza Rice's Speech To The Republican National Convention". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2012.

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• From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

  Nancy Reagan

  White, House, Privacy

  Nancy Reagan (2011). “My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan”, p.32, Random House

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• I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Play, White, House

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

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Military, White, Issues

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• At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.

  Bob Schieffer

  Independent, White, House

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• Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists.

  Helen Thomas

  Wall, White, House

  "Helen Thomas' school scraps award over 'Zionists' remark". www.cnn.com. December 5, 2010.

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• Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, White, House

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

  Matt Taibbi

  Drama, Race, White

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• I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.

  Martha Stewart

  Rip, Garden, Thinking

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• A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

  Hugh Sidey

  Athlete, White, House

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• If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Years

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• The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

  Al Sharpton

  Dream, White, House

  "Who's Distorting the Civil Rights Movement?" by Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. July 16, 2010.

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• I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.

  Jill Scott

  Wall, White, House

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• A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.

  Jill Scott

  Opportunity, Sky, White

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• Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.

  Jonathan Raban

  White, House, President

  "'He tried his best to veil it, but Obama is an intellectual'" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.

  Dennis Quaid

  Stars, Golf, Weekend

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• When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

  Dee Dee Myers

  White, Volunteer, House

  "What if women ruled the world?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.today.com. February 23, 2008.

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• When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Jobs, White, House

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• My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Travel, Jobs, White

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• After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Blue, White, House

  Dee Dee Myers (2009). “Why Women Should Rule the World”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Struggle, Thinking, Ivy

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• The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.

  Dennis Miller

  White, House, United States

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