#white house

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy. ↗

— Karl Rove

#house #memo #strategy #stupid #voters

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#amateur #back #best #cannot #country

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#contrary #day #first #house #last

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#children #comparable #era #house #kennedy

At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#capitol hill #company #contractors #everybody #formula

The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#could #did #dumbest #ever #figure

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#could #house #i #i do #living

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.' ↗

— Tarsem Singh

#come #compromised #free #free will #gods

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#american people #belong #books #covering #every

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#development #diplomatic #directed #experts #house