White House Quotes
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I think if the White House or the President want to say anything about our conversations or anything I tried to do to help our country with their support or at their request, then I think they should be the ones to do that. But I think that former presidents should do that.
Bill Clinton
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$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.
Bill Clinton
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Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.
Hillary Clinton
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In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to be in the position of basically hunkering down, anticipate something hitting the fan, propose to tough it through, sight minefields down the road, see somebody playing hard ball, claim political savvy, and wonder what stroke some of his associates have with others.
Edwin Newman
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This is our opportunity to change the leadership of the White House.
Charles Bass
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All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.
Abol-Ghasem Kashani
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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
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It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she Eleanor Roosevelt did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
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This is a pattern of lawyers and others in the White House busting their backs to do the best work they can to be try to be responsive.
Charles Ruff
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The White House is the finest prison in the world.
Harry S Truman
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I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.
Bill Clinton
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The House adjourned without voting on the bill, but the following year a similar bill—mandating equality in hotels and restaurants open to the public, in transportation facilities, in theaters and other public amusements and in the selection of juries—passed both chambers. The measure reached the White House about the time the two sides in Louisiana cobbled a compromise that allowed Grant to withdraw Sheridan and most of the federal troops. On March 1, 1875, the president signed the Civil Rights Act, the most ambitious affirmation of racial equality in American history...
H. W. Brands
