#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

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

I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#anyone #anything #because #call #company

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

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

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