White House Quotes - Page 27

• While the White House has condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric as divisive, the administration is also worried such talk will hurt antiterrorism efforts.

  Audie Cornish

  Hurt, White, House

  "Counterterrorism Experts Face Challenges Recognizing 'Lone Wolf' Terrorists". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 8, 2015.

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• Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.

  Muhammad Ali

  Years, White, America

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• Good news. President Bush is creating thousands of new jobs. Unfortunately, all of them are at the White House.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, White, Creating

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• I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

  Johnny Carson

  Lying, White, House

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• I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

  Dick Gregory

  White, People, House

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• I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)

  Ronald Reagan

  White, House, Gathering

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• Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 PM presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press.

  Thomas B. Griffith

  Pms, White, House

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• To be able to do it in the warmth and - of the White House and to do it around people who do care about my kids in a country that has been respectful of my children and their privacy, it has been less stressful than I would have imagined for me.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Children, Kids

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Thinking, Enron Scandal, White

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• The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.

  John F. Kerry

  White, Race, House

  "Monetary Dean-ominations". www.foxnews.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Moving [to the White House], whatever stresses would be on my husband and me, we could handle; we are grown-ups. But it wouldn't be until the day that my kids came home and said to me, "I like it here," that I'd feel like I could breathe and know that we're all going to be okay here.

  Michelle Obama

  Husband, Stress, Moving

  "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.

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• Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically, is going to begin with that single paragraph lead with the White House intern.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Thinking, White, House

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, "College Tour", www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I would say you have to fight in the life of the mind as well as fight in the streets, as well as fight in the courts, as well as fight in congress and the White House. Every site is a sight of contestation.

  Cornel West

  Fighting, Sight, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a human being with notoriety and a big mouth, I've felt most threatened during the first Bush Administration. Whenever there's a Bush in the White House, many people die, and the rest of us are threatened. I just didn't think it would happen quite so quickly. The so-called USA Patriot Act, and the announcement of trying people in military tribunals if Bush or Rumsfeld's or Ashcroft's people think they somehow qualify as terrorists, basically, this is McCarthyism run amok.

  Jello Biafra

  Running, Military, Thinking

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I've acquired has been access to the poorest and most destitute, forgotten, and suffering people on Earth. It's not possible for a President to actually know them.

  Jimmy Carter

  White, People, House

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 22, 2008.

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• How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'?

  Greg Behrendt

  Believe, Thinking, White

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• After President Obama, President Rodriguez... What's the worse that can happen? The border problem gets solved and the White House lawn looks better?

  Christopher Titus

  White, House, President

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• While President Bush was out of town Hillary Clinton stopped by the White House on Friday for an important meeting with her decorator.

  Jay Leno

  Friday, White, House

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• When a man ends up in the White House who boasts about not having a clue and who says that specialist knowledge is elite nonsense, then a critical point has been reached. Then you will have an obviously irresponsible man sitting in a position that requires the utmost degree of responsibility.

  Martin Schulz

  Responsibility, Men, White

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Not too long ago, my opponent made a prediction. He said I would probably win Pennsylvania, he would win North Carolina, and Indiana would be the tiebreaker. Well, tonight we've come from behind, we've broken the tie, and, thanks to you, it's full speed on to the White House.

  Hillary Clinton

  Winning, Long Ago, White

  "Obama Extends Lead; Full Speed Ahead for Hillary Clinton: She's Staying in Until the End". "American Morning", www.cnn.com. May 7, 2008.

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• The White House announced that it has rejected several petitions to legalize marijuana. They say it has nothing to do with politics. It's just that they can't accept a petition that was written on a crumpled up Funyuns bag.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Marijuana, White, House

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• This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist.

  Woody Harrelson

  Country, War, Grief

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• All of our presidents come into office looking so vigorous ... They grow grayer and grayer, and by the time they leave, they’re as white as the building they live in ... I have one big advantage: I’ve been coloring my hair for years. So you’re not going to see me turn white in the White House.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, White, Hair

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• The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.

  John F. Kennedy

  White, Long, Appreciate

  Address Before the Irish Parliament, delivered 28 June 1963, Dublin, Ireland

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• In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Reflection, Men, White

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.470, Open Road Media

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