Dan Pfeiffer Quotes

I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

– Dan Pfeiffer

From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won’t extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.

– Dan Pfeiffer

We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

– Dan Pfeiffer

There’s discussion in athletics about how sport – where they say ‘SportsCenter’ has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it’s – it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

– Dan Pfeiffer

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

– Dan Pfeiffer

The most famous Obama precept is, ‘No drama.’

– Dan Pfeiffer

The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online – Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. – and it gives us a sense of what’s breaking through, what isn’t, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

– Dan Pfeiffer