White House Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

  Calvin Jillson

  White, Ties, House

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• The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Writing

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• Since 1980, there have been 91 breaches of security at the White House. Well, 92 if you count George Bush.

  David Letterman

  White, House, Wells

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• The White House has announced that they no longer recognize Fox as a news organization, which puts them about eight years behind the rest of us.

  David Letterman

  Eight, Years, Organization

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• On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

  Gideon Welles

  Strong, Children, War

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• The White House has now put together a website for kids. It's a website to teach kids how to manage a budget responsibly. The website is called ' Irony.gov. '

  David Letterman

  Kids, White, House

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• But I was thinking about this, the Obamas want to adopt a stray dog from the pound. And I think that is admirable. I believe the last president to bring a stray dog into the White House got impeached.

  David Letterman

  Dog, Believe, Thinking

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• Over the weekend, of course, down there in Washington, D.C., they had the big White House Correspondents' Dinner. Do you know who was really funny? President Obama. So funny, in fact, he has already been promised 'The Tonight Show' in five years.

  David Letterman

  Weekend, Years, White

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• 'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, White, Race

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.226, Best Books on

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• The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?

  David Letterman

  Vacation, Texas, Wind

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• And so, as they climb the ladder of achievement, I'd simply say, remember what Barbara Bush told those girls at Wellesley: "What happens in your house is more important than what happens in the White House."

  George H. W. Bush

  Girl, White, House

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• The prime minister of Ireland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the White House. So finally the Secret Service agents will have a drinking buddy.

  Conan O'Brien

  Drinking, White, House

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• John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political junkies, got shot in the head for his efforts, murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious, degenerate FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. The list is long and crazy - maybe Marilyn Monroe's first husband fired those shots from the grassy knoll. Who knows?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Husband, Crazy, White

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• They're doing everything they can to tighten security at the White House. Today, on the roof of the White House, they added one of those fake owls.

  David Letterman

  White, Fake, House

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• Tim Tebow may be back in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles. As you remember, he was thrown out of the league when he landed his gyrocopter on the White House lawn.

  David Letterman

  Eagles, Nfl, White

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• Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'

  Pat Paulsen

  White, House, World

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• Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

  Pat Paulsen

  Running, White, House

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• It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

  Lee Iacocca

  Pain, Believe, White

  "Lee Iacocca On Chrysler's Bankruptcy" by Julie Halpert, www.newsweek.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Kids in Washington every year have the big Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. The kids found 300 Easter eggs. They also found about 10,000 missing Hillary emails.

  David Letterman

  Easter, Kids, Years

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• The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.

  Wendell Phillips

  Country, New York, White

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.47

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• Some Secret Service guys crashed a car into the White House. And they had been drinking when it happened. Actually, they hit a barrier trying to get to the White House. It's the same thing that is happening to Hillary.

  David Letterman

  Drinking, White, Car

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• Today was opening day for the new Congress in Washington. And Vice President Joe Biden swore in the new batch of White House fence jumpers.

  David Letterman

  White, House, President

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• Here's the latest from the Pentagon -- the generals are worried that the White House is spreading itself thin by trying to fight a war on two fronts; Afghanistan and Fox News.

  Jay Leno

  War, Fighting, Two

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• Well, Joe Biden has done it again. He showed up at the White House Passover Seder with a bunch of ham sandwiches.

  Jay Leno

  White, House, Sandwiches

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