Top 400 White House Quotes

Words matter. These are the best White House Quotes from famous people such as Pat Paulsen, Alistair Horne, Alex Pareene, Ira Hayes, Jeff Gannon, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice.

Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
Pat Paulsen
Though Washington had closed down for the holidays, the next day, December 26, a key message from Hanoi brought Kissinger racing back to his office. It was the signal the White House had anxiously been awaiting; it was also the day of one of the biggest raids by the giant B-52s.
Alistair Horne
The thing with ‘The West Wing’ is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality – these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had.
Alex Pareene
I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they’re not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me.
Ira Hayes
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
I’ve been to the White House a number of times.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
Barbara Boxer
Once the collection of conversations between the Israeli government and members of Congress occurred, had it been inadvertent, then they would have been destroyed instead of redacted for further use. Had they been inadvertent, then they would not have been forwarded to the White House for review in their redacted form.
Mark Meadows
I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton beat Bush’s father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focusing on ‘the economy, stupid’ – and Clinton’s victory led, in time, to the longest sustained boom in American history.
Nigel Hamilton
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
There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.
Linda Tripp
I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter.
Jeff Gannon
There are a very limited number of people in senior roles at the White House, and time is their most precious asset.
Ben Rhodes
Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
Grover Cleveland
Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush’s budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with ‘Hey, look over there, it’s Saddam Hussein.’
Craig Kilborn
After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.
Dee Dee Myers
I guess I would use my son’s word: cool. It was cool to work in the White House.
Alberto Gonzales
I’m always looking to the next thing. There are always hurdles, whether it’s the White House dinner or hosting charity events or that night’s show: Until they’re over, I worry, then I move right on to the next thing. It’s hard for me to enjoy the moment. I’m just thinking about not failing.
Jimmy Kimmel
One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else.
Monica Crowley
Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.
Majel Barrett
Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.
Hillary Clinton
With my own son, my style of mothering has been to bring him everywhere. He’s sitting on my lap during interviews. When I went to the White House to meet President Obama, he was there.
Reshma Saujani
I’ve always been an outsider. I think, being in the White House press corps, it’s difficult to do the sort of journalism that I would want to do.
Katy Tur
I don’t think I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome in a sense that I can separate the man from the White House.
Meghan McCain
I’ve driven a Formula One car, flown a helicopter, flown with the Red Arrows, met kings and queens, been to the White House.
Noel Edmonds
I can call a march, and thousands come out, and I happen to have access to the White House at the same time.
Al Sharpton
Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
Barbara Bush
I’m just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won’t take me because he knows I don’t want to go.
Pia Zadora
The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won’t veto any of these things.
Mitch McConnell
If ethics is limited to financial conflicts of interest – that’s really what I did in the Bush White House – that’s a huge problem for me because Trump refused to sell his businesses. We don’t know where he’s getting his financing.
Richard Painter
The Obama administration is fighting to block access to

The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn’t have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.
Bill Dedman
I knew I had to cover my back and document what I saw as an opportunity to kind of blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the White House, and I knew that I needed to document that corruption; otherwise, people would not take it seriously.
Omarosa Manigault Newman
We don’t consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan… The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.
Mohammed Omar
Many Republicans knew that Trump’s anti-media attacks were damaging, and they cringed when his White House was consumed by his own narcissism. They knew that the country deserved better.
Brian Stelter
I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the ‘hood.
Wendy Raquel Robinson
Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws.
Jim Sensenbrenner
When you walk in the front of the White House, the pictures on the walls, they change out pretty frequently. They’re all very cool and historical, with pictures from the current term and past terms.
Andra Day
I don’t think the White House has always reflected the textures and flavors of this country.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
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
I’m a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House.
Seymour Hersh
I didn’t know anything about Eliza when I first got the call about ‘Hamilton.’ Tommy Kail, the director, asked me if I wanted to be a part of it. I knew what he was talking about because I’d seen the video of Lin performing it at the White House for Barack and Michelle Obama.
Phillipa Soo
In 2002, a year after 9-11, as a Congressman, I was banned from the White House by Karl Rove because I told the ‘Washington Times’ that if there is another terrorist attack on our homeland and we have done nothing more than Bush has done to date, ‘Bush will have blood on his hands.’
Tom Tancredo
Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled.
David E. Sanger
Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
Rahm Emanuel
The public should begin to understand that there’s nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe. It truly is all misrepresentation and deception.
John Sununu
In the White House, I had influence. At Breitbart, I had power.
Steve Bannon
I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
Jimmy Carter
Candidates ignore New Hampshire at their own peril. You all remember President Giuliani? He’s done a great job in the White House.
Corey Lewandowski
There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.
Dolly Parton
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