Quotes tagged ‘White House’

“Once again breaking a new barrier with his administration appointments, President-elect Joe Biden announced on Sunday that former Obama White House communications director Jen Psaki will be his White House press secretary and that she will be backed by an all-female communications team working for h…”

— Stuart Emmrich, Vogue, vogue.com

“The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's COVID-19 projections were cited in recent White House briefings and take into account how the pandemic is playing out in several countries around the world.”

— Sean McMinn, npr.org

“What I see right now is a lot of religious voters who are looking for options, because what's happening in Washington and especially in this White House is an affront to any number of religious traditions, including somewhat conservative ones.”

— Pete Buttigieg, thehill.com

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

— H. L. Mencken, amazon.com

“Actually what he did was he made an illegal campaign contribution to cover up a previous sexual alliance. But what the actual law he broke was not by having sex, but what he did was he committed a felony while in the White House.”

— Tom Steyer, abcnews.go.com

“I'm confident that 2020 is going to produce a significant change, not just in the White House, but in both houses of Congress. I think that Democratic majority on immigration, on healthcare, on a more inclusive economy, on confronting the challenge of climate before it's too late is going to be able…”

— Beto O'Rourke, cbsnews.com

“There’s a direct correlation between corporations that are getting rich, and the fact that we have students who are shackled with debt. There is a direct correlation between the White House and the people who are benefiting from detention beds that are profitized [sic].”

— Ilhan Omar, ips-dc.org

“I bought Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s watch at auction. I wore it when I went to the White House. It gave me some power: Let’s get in there and get this done!”

— Kim Kardashian West, vogue.com

“We have foreign powers infecting the White House like malware.”

— Kamala Harris, cnn.com

“The way things are going, if he gets any crazier, we might end up in the White House.”

— Steve Oedekerk, Rita, Wanda Sykes, imdb.com

“Well go on, go on, it's merely a lift. Or should I say elevator? In any event I'm sure you'll find it far more convenient than mountaineering about outside the White House.”

— Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Charles Gray, imdb.com

“[remarks at Goldfinger's US Army uniform with colonel's wings] Congratulations on your promotion, Goldfinger. Are you having lunch at the White House, too?”

— Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn, James Bond, Sean Connery, imdb.com

“[last lines] Holden Ford: So what are you teaching? Wendy Carr: Um, I'm teaching a class on the intersection of sociopathy and fame. People like, um, Andy Warhol, Jim Morrison. Their celebrity becomes the only thing they need to sustain their ego. Bill Tench: Nixon was a sociopath. Wendy Carr: Very…”

— Joe Penhall, Ruby Mae Spiegel, Bill Tench, Holt McCallany, imdb.com

“I like conflict. I like having two people with different points of view, and I certainly have that. . . . I like watching it. I like seeing it, and I think it’s the best way to go.”

— Donald Trump, foxnews.com

“We all know the White House would work so much better if there wasn't a President, but there is, so we work around that.”

— sean Grey, Ben Cafferty, Kevin Dunn, imdb.com

“Mr. Luce, you've asked a fair question and I'll give you a fair answer. I've been in politics thirty-five years and everything that could be said about a human being has been said about me. But my wife has never been in politics. She has always conducted herself in a circumspect manner and no one ha…”

— Harry S Truman, amazon.com

“I'm angry that George Bush got to be in the White House, and I'm angry that Gore wasn't able to be a better candidate after eight years of a great economy and being an incumbent.”

— Eddie Vedder, avclub.com

“I couldn’t justify Chappaquiddick. I mean it was a humiliation, a horrible embarrassment, and as I told somebody—it’s in these papers here—I said he took us with him over that bridge because he was sort of our star. I think if that hadn’t happened, he might have been in the White House himself.”

— Walter Mondale, emkinstitute.org

“I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.”

— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com

“The higher up the mountain the more treacherous the path.”

— Bill Cain, Beau Willimon‏, Frank Underwood, Kevin Spacey, imdb.com