#white house

Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#america #any #assume #because #current

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

#exaggerate #experiences #facts #family #house

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#african-american #against #barack #barack obama #born

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media. ↗

— Linda Tripp

#citizen #effectively #fight #house #media

The White House is the finest prison in the world. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#house #prison #white #white house #world

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#after #campaign #comes #down #every

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#action #against #bin #bush #chief

Alinsky's 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals," is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer. ↗

— Karl Rove

#convention #democratic #did #favorite #freeze

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#american family #architects #assembled #athletes #billionaires

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia. ↗

— James Stockdale

#any #asia #bomb #book #declared