#white house

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

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Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

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Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk? ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

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Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action. ↗

— Julian Bond

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My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

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

— Jay Carney

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I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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