White House Quotes - Page 30

• I've been to the White House a number of times.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  White, Numbers, House

  "Doris Kearns Goodwin on 'Lincoln' and Her Conversations With Obama About the 16th President". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 13, 2012.

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• But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member - yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged.

  Carol D. Leonnig

  Senior, Team, White

  "Politics Aides knew of possible White House link to Cartagena, Colombia, prostitution scandal". www.washingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.

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• In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to be in the position of basically hunkering down, anticipate something hitting the fan, propose to tough it through, sight minefields down the road, see somebody playing hard ball, claim political savvy, and wonder what stroke some of his associates have with others.

  Edwin Newman

  Sight, White, House

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.

  Chevy Chase

  White, House, Want

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• I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.

  Bob Dole

  Fall, Home, White

  "Dole Quits Senate To Campaign Full Time". www.cnn.com. May 15, 1996.

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• Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face.

  Larry Speakes

  White, Air, Giving

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• Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.

  David Brooks

  Circles, White, House

  "Shields and Brooks on Hagel’s Rough Hearing, Movement on Immigration". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. February 1, 2013.

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• 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.

  Laura Bush

  Husband, Home, White

  "Laura Bush on U.S. Political Divide". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2004.

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• I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something that a friend owns.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  White, House, Connections

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• All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.

  Jeff Gannon

  White, House, President

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.

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• I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

  Dick Gephardt

  Thinking, White, House

  Twitter post from Oct 10, 2016

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• Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  White, Numbers, House

  "Charles Gonzalez DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.

  Dom DeLuise

  Song, Men, White

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

  Dinesh D'Souza

  White, House, Want

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• Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

  Peter Coyote

  White, House, Pages

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• If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.

  Stephanie Cutter

  White, House, Firsts

  "Obama, Romney Campaigns Trade Barbs On Medicare" By Lucia Graves, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2012.

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• When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

  Elliott Abrams

  Talking, White, House

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• American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.

  Joe Baca

  Jobs, Kids, White

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• 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.

  Howard Dean

  White, House, Effort

  "Democrats lambast Bush speech" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2004.

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• Now, we're used to thinking of communism as being once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. And people agree that there is a sort of epic narrative going on here. I think we should just throw this narrative out, it's irrelevant anyway, and who cares who owns things? I don't. You know, we all own the White House. So what? I still can't go in, right?

  David Graeber

  Thinking, Epic, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Integrity, Real, White

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.332, Best Books on

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• [Vladimir] Putin spoke unabashedly about the importance of national sovereignty in Syria, a concept apparently near and dear to his heart, unless it comes to the sovereignty of Georgia, Ukraine or any other country in which he intervenes. Then he offered his cooperation, but without making any concrete concessions at all. And he didn't have to, either. He knows what he can rely on. He has assets that are more valuable than words: He has tanks in Ukraine, fighter jets in Syria - and Barack Obama in the White House.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Heart, White

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Years, White, Long

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• If Hillary Clinton wants to back into the White House, then sure, she can do it like this, like in 1991, `92, the Clintons had decided, well, where are we going to be in spectrum in order to be president. But if she wants to be build up some mandate for an agenda, and actually going to accomplish that agenda, she would actually be smart to start building support for her now.

  Ryan Grim

  Smart, Order, White

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When Hillary Clinton was in the Clinton White House as first lady, the left - the right accused her of being wide eyed radical lesbian feminist and in some issues, like welfare reform, she pushed back against the new .

  David Corn

  White, Issues, House

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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