In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat – 13 times. – Elliott Abrams
I’ve had some wonderful times at the White House. I’ve been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush. – Dom DeLuise
Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes. – Mary Steenburgen
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. – Mack McLarty
Yeah, I’m running for the White House again. Well, it’s not a run, really; it’s sort of a brisk walk. – Pat Paulsen
Prime Minister Abe, on behalf of the American people, I welcome you to the very famous White House. – Donald Trump To Japanese Premier who had already visited the “very famous” White House.
We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally. – Michelle Obama
I was given a White House – well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there. – Jeff Gannon
Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves – Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there. – Jonathan Raban
All my stories were usually titled, ‘White House Says,’ ‘President Bush Wants,’ and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted. – Jeff Gannon
I’ve been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too. – Lesley Nicol
If Bush does make it to the White House, he and Laura should have Ken Starr over for dinner. – Molly Ivins
I’ve interviewed the president in the White House. I’d interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors. – Jane Clayson
What’s new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It’s not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That’s where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld. – Jim Hightower
There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House. – Juan Williams
I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we’re going to determine progress in Afghanistan. – Jeanne Shaheen
I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter. – Jeff Gannon
The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House. – Jeff Goodell
The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly. – Maya Angelou
The GOP can’t even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote. – Luis Fortuno
Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the darlings of Hollywood. As president, each brought to the White House a fashionable and accomplished First Lady, two adorable young children and scene-stealing pets. – Kitty Kelley
It’s been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves. – Jonathan Raban
If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that’s reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they – the Administration – believe. – Jeff Gannon
