Inside The White House Quotes

#1. Inside the White House there were always extreme amounts of doubt about whether they should be escalating in Afghanistan. In fact, most of the president's advisers said, "This is probably not going to work." A lot of people in the military said, "This is probably not going to work."

Michael Hastings

#2. Your success as a family ... our success as a nation ... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

Barbara Bush

#3. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside.

Conan O'Brien

#4. It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.

Tina Brown

#5. President Obama spent Election Day away from any press coverage, attending closed-door meetings inside the White House. But on the bright side, it is nice to see some doors actually closed at the White House. It's a whole new Secret Service security thing.

Jimmy Fallon

#6. There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

Wernher Von Braun

#7. What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.

Tony Hale

#8. The outside world might have finally turned into autumn, but inside the Waverley house it still smelled of summer. It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet-tart that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds like true-love hearts.

Sarah Addison Allen

#9. So I guess this means Domme Isa will be retired for a while until he feels satiated. But I'll be damned if she'll be retired forever. I want to know the real Dylan because apparently I've only been fucking his representative.

Ella Dominguez

#10. Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.

Andrew Wilkow

#11. From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

Donald Rumsfeld

#12. This notary was a little man, completely round, round in every part. His head looked like a ball nailed onto another ball, supported by two legs that were so tiny and so short that they also closely resembled balls.

Guy De Maupassant

#13. I turned and looked out the window at the snow and tried to think of the year-round sunshine in California. I tasted salt as tears streamed down my face and into my mouth. Marge said, "You can't move.

Madelon Phillips

#14. Look at Woden and his cheerily racist army of ethnic monocultured valkyrie fuck buddies.

Kieron Gillen

#15. We no longer live in that fabulous age when the sun, to whom we owe so much, was so generous that it halted its journey over Gibeon in order to give Joshua ample time to overcome the five kings besieging the city.

Jose Saramago

#16. I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#17. We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

Marco Rubio

#18. Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations
many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.

Susan Jane Gilman

#20. We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House - make no mistake about it.

George W. Bush

#21. Jesus loved everyone, but he loved children most of all. Today we know that unborn children are the targets of destruction. We must thank our parents for wanting us, for loving us and for taking such good care of us.

Mother Teresa

#22. I wouldn't be surprised if you were actually the ringleader of an all-girl mafia.

Kiera Cass

#23. The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.

Rick Riordan

#24. Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

Peter Coyote