White House Quotes - Page 3

• When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is untrue. Credibility is enormously important to a press secretary.

  Jay Carney

  Lying, White, House

  "Carney: 'I never lie'" by Jennifer Epstein, www.politico.com. April 27, 2012.

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• The Founding Fathers did not believe the primary purpose of their guns was to hunt ducks, but to keep the government in line within the bounds of the Constitution. The Founding Fathers said that armed citizens are a bulwark against a tyrant in the White House.

  John Coleman

  Father, Believe, Gun

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• Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House’s Easter Egg Roll. It’s nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Easter, Nice, Eggs

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• It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

  Tabitha Soren

  Morning, White, House

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• All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  White, House, Welcome

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• The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The Original Gorilla", about as intelligent as ever. What a specimen to be at the head of our affairs now.

  George B. McClellan

  War, Intelligent, Government

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• There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Country, School, World Religions

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• I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

  Ina Garten

  Fun, White, Office

  "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.

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• But whatever the era, whatever the times, one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your children. Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House but on what happens inside your house

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Fighting, Russia, Order

  Appeal to the military to not participate in the coup attempt, while standing on a tank during troop movements against the Russian White House, August 19, 1991.

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• "Angelophany" is the visible or otherwise tangible manifestation of angels to human beings. Abraham Lincoln frequently mentioned that he was visited by angels at the White House.

  James R. Lewis

  Angel, White, House

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• I feel like Barack Obama's an Illuminati puppet. He's basically dragged this country down into the worst it's ever been. Like I say about the White House, 'You've built this house of shame'. Everybody looked up at the White House and America and now I think it's like a house of shame. I miss the old days when people were proud to be American.

  Jonathan Davis

  Country, Thinking, White

  "Korn: Obama's an Illuminati puppet" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 12, 2011.

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• Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

  Howard Dean

  New York, Oklahoma, Texas

  Remarks after Iowa caucuses, Des Moines, Iowa, 19 Jan. 2004. The "Yeah" at the end of these comments was perceived as a scream and contributed substantially to the decline of his presidential candidacy.

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• In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Block, Thinking, Government

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Blind Spots, White, People

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business.

  Maxine Waters

  Home, Gangsta, White

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• The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

  Paul Weyrich

  White, House, Opponents

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• The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

  Linda Tripp

  Believe, Reality, White

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

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• I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for.

  Adam Kokesh

  Country, Children, Block

  "Pro-gun activist Adam Kokesh arrested after posting YouTube video". www.rt.com. July 10, 2013.

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• It’s being reported that the economy lost 95,000 jobs in September. And that’s just people leaving the White House.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, White, People

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• By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  Claudia Roth

  Queens, White, House

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• Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.

  Mercer Reynolds

  Children, White, Two

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• American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, Media, White

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• It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Confused, Character, White

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• The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

  Maureen Dowd

  Sacrifice, White, Appreciate

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