#white house

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#gets #history #house #left #matters

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#capitol hill #classroom #country #does #great

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track. ↗

— Lisa Murkowski

#around #businesses #country #demonstrated #economy

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#cat #clinton #clinton administration #example #finished

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#cooked #cooking #daughter #easter #garden

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#house #i #into #moment #privacy

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House. ↗

— Chris Rock

#college #house #make #makes #white

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow? ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#anyone #house #how #lived #living

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#bush #cheney #compassionate #conservatives #express

Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#house #say #want #wants #white