#white house

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#capitol hill #classroom #country #does #great

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either. ↗

— Jesse Owens

#either #hands #hitler #house #i

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#cooked #cooking #daughter #easter #garden

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House. ↗

— Chris Rock

#college #house #make #makes #white

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#bush #cheney #compassionate #conservatives #express

The White House is a strange place. ↗

— Marlin Fitzwater

#place #strange #white #white house

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life. ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#campaigns #dog #every #four #house

I send messages to the White House continuously. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#house #i #messages #send #white

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#grow up #house #man #presidents #shape

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

#believed #briefings #bush #house #i