There’s a big gap between ‘Click the link to send an e-mail to your congressman’ and ‘Chain yourself to the White House.’ – Billy Parish
I’d worked at the White House for two years, and I’d read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long – and never without the word ‘power’ in the title. – Christopher Buckley
We’re about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we’re going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set. – Aaron Sorkin
I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off. – Christopher Buckley
I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn’t see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty. – Clayton Christensen
The first novel I wrote, ‘The White House Mess,’ was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir. – Christopher Buckley
The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse. – Brian Schweitzer
I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir. – Christopher Buckley
I can call a march, and thousands come out, and I happen to have access to the White House at the same time. – Al Sharpton
When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well. – David Rubenstein
Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald’s, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house. – Paul Thomas Anderson
I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous. – Desiree Rogers
We’ve had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won’t meet with the Republicans. It’s all his way. – Chris Smith
The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence. – Pankaj Mishra
It is long overdue that we have a woman as a legitimate contender for the White House. But Hillary Clinton is the definition of the establishment so many are determined to reject. – Gary Johnson
The White House tapes, recording Nixon’s nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietnam, made frightening reading once made public on the orders of Congress. – Nigel Hamilton
Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet. – Charlie Gonzalez
While I’m critical to the Bush presidency, it’s been enormously beneficial for Salon because we’re seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers. – David Talbot
Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush’s budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with ‘Hey, look over there, it’s Saddam Hussein.’ – Craig Kilborn
President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that. – Douglas Brinkley