White House Quotes - Page 35

• The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.

  Jay Carney

  Jobs, Government, White

  Press Briefing in the White House, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 04, 2011.

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• I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee! I was an author of the homeland security bill, for goodness' sake! But I wasn't a rubber stamp for the White House. That right there is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics today!

  Max Cleland

  Running, Years, White

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• Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

  Grover Cleveland

  Dream, Eye, Night

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• QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

  Ambrose Bierce

  White, Numbers, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2007). “Essential Bierce: A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Heyday Books

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• One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. 'There they are,' I said. 'See no evil, hear no evil, and . . . evil.'

  Bob Dole

  White, Evil, House

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• I am in control here, in the White House.

  Alexander Haig

  White, House, Pending

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 4 Apr. 1981

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• I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.

  Robert Irvine

  Sorry, White, People

  "Food Network Axes Chef After Resume Exaggerations Revealed" by, www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2008.

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• I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, White, Numbers

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• Even the White House has a press agent.

  Larry Wall

  White, House, Agents

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• I just know that what happened in the Clinton White House should never have happened to anyone.

  Linda Tripp

  White, House, Clinton

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

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• Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Athlete, White, House

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• We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Girl, Thinking, White

  "Chelsea Clinton Endorses Hillary for President 2016" by Sami K. Martin, www.christianpost.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.

  Scott McClellan

  Believe, White, People

  Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, PublicAffairs

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• When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

  Scott McClellan

  White, House, Misled

  "Congressman wants McClellan to testify under oath". www.cnn.com. May 30, 2008.

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• I frankly can't wait, because the idea of Bill Clinton back in the White House with nothing to do is something I just can't imagine, I can't imagine the American people can imagine.

  Mitt Romney

  Ideas, White, People

  Mitt Romney at GOP primary debate at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2008.

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• If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended no one to ever know - like "The New York Times" - we would have been kept in the dark forever. I just think that's completely irrational.

  Kate O'Beirne

  New York, Dark, Thinking

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 17, 2006.

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• Every member of Congress and every Senator kind of runs their own race with their own message because they don't want to necessarily have dictated from the White House what that message should be.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Running, White, Race

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The repealing and replacing of Obamacare is very complicated. It is what a White House and congressional leadership, serious White House and serious congressional leadership, should meet on and work on and figure out a strategy of, and it may work and it may not. Obviously not every administration gets things through, even when they have much larger majorities in congress and a much larger popular vote than Donald Trump had.

  William Kristol

  Obamacare, White, Popular Vote

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think it will be interesting to see what happens in that small confine at the White House, when you have all the media that`s been assigned to cover the White House, and you start getting the same kind of questions, the same kind of approach.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Media, White

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I said in 2004,in fact a group was sent to me from the White House to try talk to me, because I was getting a lot of publicity.I said it in 2004, you're going to destabilize the Middle East, Iran is going to take over Iraq... and somebody else is going to help and that turned out to be ISIS. It's an exact.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Iran, Iraq

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  War, Sacrifice, White

  "At Dawn We Slept". Book by Donald M Goldstein, Gordon Prange, and Katherine V. Dillon, 1981.

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• I am glad to welcome my friend Rand Paul into the 2016 GOP primary. Rand is a good friend, and we have worked side by side on many issues. I respect his talent, his passion, and the work he has done for Kentuckians and Americans in the U.S. Senate. His entry into the race will no doubt raise the bar of competition, help make us all stronger, and ultimately ensure that the GOP nominee is equipped to beat Hillary Clinton and to take back the White House for Republicans in 2016.

  Ted Cruz

  Passion, Good Friend, Race

  FaceBook post by Ted Cruz from Apr 07, 2015

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• President Obama said the small drone that flew over the White House fence yesterday could be bought at any RadioShack. After hearing this, the RadioShack CEO said, 'I'm shocked to find out we still sell something people want.'

  Conan O'Brien

  White, Yesterday, People

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• Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.

  Conan O'Brien

  Government, Years, Two

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• The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.

  Conan O'Brien

  Past, White, Jumping

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