#white house

It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#come #constant #daily #get #hard

I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office. ↗

— Joseph Force Crater

#always #because #charge #enjoyed #experience

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#funny thing #happened #house #me #thing

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,' ↗

— Ron Suskind

#did #ever #house #like #nobody

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#assistant #been #choose #could #died

We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#develop #house #looking #next #ought

Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#avoided #been #characteristic #giving #his

The White House is a strange place. ↗

— Marlin Fitzwater

#place #strange #white #white house

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. ↗

— James Buchanan

#feel #happy #happy man #house #i

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago. ↗

— Stephanie Cutter

#bed #chicago #competitor #contributing #feel