White House Quotes - Page 17

• The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

  Leon Panetta

  Iraq, White, House

  Leon Panetta, Jim Newton (2014). “Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace”, p.214, Penguin

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• I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world.

  Al Gore

  Running, White, People

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• People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.

  Tom Tancredo

  White, People, House

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 05, 2010.

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• Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Father, White

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.121, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The big rumor going around is, we may begin bombing Iraq. Or, as the White House calls it, Operation Keep Enron Off The Front Page.

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, White, House

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• Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.

  Alan Keyes

  White, People, House

  "New barbarians". mobile.wnd.com. May 6, 2000.

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• I moved out eventually of the White House and moved into a townhouse with a group of girls while I was in college.

  Susan Ford

  Girl, College, White

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. May 31, 2001.

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• I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

  Desiree Rogers

  Jobs, Years, White

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• President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle.

  Peter Baker

  White, Yesterday, Play

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• The campaign for the White House is heating up with John Kerry taking heat for throwing his Vietnam medals away, getting a $1000 haircut, and wearing a 1970s wig known as 'the Leno.' There are really two sides to this story. And America can't wait for Kerry to present both of them.

  David Letterman

  Two Sides, White, America

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• The White House begun airing their TV commercials to re-elect the president, and the John Kerry campaign is condemning his use of 9/11 in the ads. He said, it is unconscionable to use the tragic memory of a war in order to get elected, unless of course, it's the Vietnam War.

  Jay Leno

  Memories, War, Order

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• I'm worried about John Kerry, he's so confident now that he's already planning his White House sex scandal.

  David Letterman

  Sex, White, House

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• John Kerry's victory over Howard Dean has completely changed the presidential race around. Now instead of the rich white guy from Yale who lives in the White house facing off against the rich white guy from Yale who lives in Vermont, he may have to face the rich white guy from Yale who lives in Massachusetts. It's a whole different game.

  Jay Leno

  Race, Yale, Games

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• I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.

  Peter Brimelow

  Children, Thinking, White

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• What I'm critical of is - the White House attacking conservatives, for saying we're elitist for pointing out that Harriet Miers isn't qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. I'm starting to feel sort of bad about - about saying that. And I'm annoyed with George Bush [Jr.] for putting us in the position of having to say that.

  Ann Coulter

  White, House, Annoyed

  "Ann Coulter on the Harriet Miers Nomination". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 13, 2005.

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• For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional.

  Malcolm Forbes

  School, White, Yesterday

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• Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Wind, White

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• By the time you get to year six, there's never a break . . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were.

  Ed Rollins

  Tired, Years, White

  "Senior White House Staff May Be Wearing Down" by Peter Baker, www.washingtonpost.com. March 13, 2006.

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• It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.

  Tom Coburn

  Believe, Government, White

  "No Katrina sacrifice", www.cnn.com. September 15, 2005.

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• I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.

  Richard Lugar

  Country, Commitment, Thinking

  "GOP looks to Frist to repair Lott damage". www.cnn.com. December 22, 2002.

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• Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper and not the White House press corps at large, or notify the public in a national way.

  David Gregory

  Men, White, House

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• It is no surprise that the Republican-controlled Senate intelligence committee has once again caved in to the wishes of the White House and refused even to open an investigation. We cannot effectively legislate on the NSA spying issue if we do not know the facts, and we will not know them if the Republican-controlled intelligence committee persists in refusing to do its job.

  Harry Reid

  Jobs, Nsa, White

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• There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.

  Harry Reid

  Responsibility, White, House

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• For the past three years, the Senate intelligence committee has avoided carrying out its oversight of our nation's intelligence programs whenever the White House becomes uncomfortable with the questions being asked. The very independence of this committee is called into question.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Past, Years, White

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• If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

  Patty Murray

  White, House, Balance

  "Bush, Clinton in campaign blitz", www.cnn.com. November 2, 2002.

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