White House Quotes - Page 26

• I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

  Helen Thomas

  White, House, Journalism

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• Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.

  Butch Otter

  Healthcare Reform, Pushing Through, Usa

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• Even as Ramadan holds profound meaning for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, it is also a reminder to people of all faiths of our common humanity and the commitment to justice, equality, and compassion shared by all great faiths. In that spirit, I wish Muslims across America and around the world a blessed month, and I look forward to again hosting an iftar dinner here at the White House. Ramadan Kareem.

  Barack Obama

  Blessed, Commitment, Compassion

  "President Obama’s Statement On Ramadan", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2012.

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• There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.

  Paul Krugman

  Mistake, Past, Winning

  "Debt, Depression, DeMarco" by Paul Krugman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2012.

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• Betty White met with President Obama at the White House. President Obama invited Betty personally because she's great with animals. And the president's still having a tough time house-training Joe Biden.

  Craig Ferguson

  Animal, White, House

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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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• My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

  Emilio Estevez

  Mother, Father, White

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• I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

  George McGovern

  White, House, Presidential

  "Hope and Change ... the Constitution" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 25, 2010.

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• For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Cat, White, House

  "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.

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• I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.

  Florence Harding

  White, House, President

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• Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House  has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that's despicable.

  Colin Powell

  Real, Party, Character

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• 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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• It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved.

  Fred F. Fielding

  White, Issues, People

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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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• So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Media, White, America

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• We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.

  Hillary Clinton

  White, House, Firsts

  "Hillary Clinton". Book by Jean F. Blashfield, 2010.

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• We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

  Hillary Clinton

  Yale, White, House

  "Multi-millionaire Hillary tells ABC she was 'dead broke' (and deflects on Benghazi)" by Howard Kurtz, www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2014.

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• There can be no progress on climate change without strong and aggressive leadership from the White House.  While we have been frustrated that it took until now, we find that the President’s plan contains plenty of smart proposals and pathways for action. Stonyfield stands firmly behind the President's vision.

  Gary Hirshberg

  Strong, Smart, White

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• Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.

  Bob Goff

  White, People, House

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go on and get out of there. But there are a few little rituals that have to be observed. One of them is that the president must host the incoming president in the White House, smile as if they love each other and give the American people the idea that democracy is peaceful and honourable and there will be a good transfer of power

  Nancy Gibbs

  White, Ideas, Office

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.502, Simon and Schuster

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• In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Hate, Winning, White

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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