White House Quotes - Page 35

• I said in 2004,in fact a group was sent to me from the White House to try talk to me, because I was getting a lot of publicity.I said it in 2004, you're going to destabilize the Middle East, Iran is going to take over Iraq... and somebody else is going to help and that turned out to be ISIS. It's an exact.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Iran, Iraq

  Source: www.economist.com

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• I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.

  Andrew Shue

  Opportunity, White, Media

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• It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.

  Mitt Romney

  White, House, Needs

  "Exclusive: Mitt and Ann Romney on campaign mistakes, life after presidential election loss and political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 03, 2013.

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• I write to withdraw as a nominee to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. ... I am concerned that the confirmation process presents a burden for the White House and our staff that is not in the best interest of the country.

  Harriet Miers

  Country, Writing, White

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• I just know that what happened in the Clinton White House should never have happened to anyone.

  Linda Tripp

  White, House, Clinton

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. February 9, 2001.

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• QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

  Ambrose Bierce

  White, Numbers, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2007). “Essential Bierce: A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Heyday Books

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• The repealing and replacing of Obamacare is very complicated. It is what a White House and congressional leadership, serious White House and serious congressional leadership, should meet on and work on and figure out a strategy of, and it may work and it may not. Obviously not every administration gets things through, even when they have much larger majorities in congress and a much larger popular vote than Donald Trump had.

  William Kristol

  Obamacare, White, Popular Vote

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

  Scott McClellan

  White, House, Misled

  "Congressman wants McClellan to testify under oath". www.cnn.com. May 30, 2008.

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• I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee! I was an author of the homeland security bill, for goodness' sake! But I wasn't a rubber stamp for the White House. That right there is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics today!

  Max Cleland

  Running, Years, White

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• So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We dont need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  White, America, House

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• Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

  Grover Cleveland

  Dream, Eye, Night

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• The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.

  Jay Carney

  Jobs, Government, White

  Press Briefing in the White House, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 04, 2011.

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• We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Girl, Thinking, White

  "Chelsea Clinton Endorses Hillary for President 2016" by Sami K. Martin, www.christianpost.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I am in control here, in the White House.

  Alexander Haig

  White, House, Pending

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 4 Apr. 1981

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• One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. 'There they are,' I said. 'See no evil, hear no evil, and . . . evil.'

  Bob Dole

  White, Evil, House

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• Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Athlete, White, House

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• I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.

  Robert Irvine

  Sorry, White, People

  "Food Network Axes Chef After Resume Exaggerations Revealed" by, www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2008.

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• I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, White, Numbers

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• Even the White House has a press agent.

  Larry Wall

  White, House, Agents

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• I think it will be interesting to see what happens in that small confine at the White House, when you have all the media that`s been assigned to cover the White House, and you start getting the same kind of questions, the same kind of approach.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Media, White

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe.

  Lawrence Korb

  Military, White, House

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• I want to see a Jew in the White house.

  Kinky Friedman

  White, House, Want

  Source: www.axs.com

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• Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'

  Pat Paulsen

  Wine, White, House

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• I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.

  Will Smith

  Running, White, Years

  "Will Smith". Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, 2001.

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• Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  War, Sacrifice, White

  "At Dawn We Slept". Book by Donald M Goldstein, Gordon Prange, and Katherine V. Dillon, 1981.

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