Top 55 Oval Office Quotes

#1. I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

George W. Bush

Oval Office Quotes #34788
#2. We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

P. J. O'Rourke

Oval Office Quotes #42285
#3. We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office ...

Mark Steyn

Oval Office Quotes #88650
#4. I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel.

John Ridley

Oval Office Quotes #128510
#5. Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

David K. Shipler

Oval Office Quotes #142514
#6. I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

Ronald Reagan

Oval Office Quotes #181577
#7. I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office and foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

George W. Bush

Oval Office Quotes #190678
#8. I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

Dick Cheney

Oval Office Quotes #197682
#9. Presidential candidate Donald Trump had a meeting with Ted Cruz. He said he does not know why he agreed to fly to New York to meet Ted Cruz and then he promised to bring that kind of leadership to the Oval Office.

Conan O'Brien

Oval Office Quotes #225488
#10. It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

Robert McNamara

Oval Office Quotes #290388
#11. I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. We don't have to support our administrations to love our country.

Cindy Sheehan

Oval Office Quotes #322687
#12. The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.

David Petraeus

Oval Office Quotes #396703
#13. I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul - what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States.

Julia Gillard

Oval Office Quotes #435267
#14. Hillary Clinton said she hopes America is ready for a woman in the Oval Office. That was the great thing about her husband Bill: he was always ready for a woman in the Oval Office.

Jay Leno

Oval Office Quotes #466678
#15. I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed in the atmosphere, and they say, man, you're looking pretty.

George W. Bush

Oval Office Quotes #473838
#16. Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office ... You mean the one on the sofa?

Craig Ferguson

Oval Office Quotes #502289
#17. I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.

George W. Bush

Oval Office Quotes #502681
#18. Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.

Robert Draper

Oval Office Quotes #507758
#19. Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.

Kenneth Langone

Oval Office Quotes #552241
#20. John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I'm sorry, it's got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts - she's grossly unqualified.

Ron Reagan

Oval Office Quotes #610189
#21. See, one of the interesting things in the Oval Office - I love to bring people into the Oval Office - right around the corner from here - and say, this is where I office, but I want you to know the office is always bigger than the person.

George W. Bush

Oval Office Quotes #612458
#22. Hillary Clinton was actually inducted into the Irish American Hall of Fame yesterday. Hillary said she's very proud of her Irish heritage or her Italian heritage or her Asian heritage. Whatever it takes to seal the deal with you guys. I've got to get into that Oval Office.

Jimmy Fallon

Oval Office Quotes #634108
#23. When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?

Tom Brokaw

Oval Office Quotes #652280
#24. I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Barack Obama

Oval Office Quotes #676367
#25. Was it against the law to vomit in the Oval Office?

Julie Ann Walker

Oval Office Quotes #718966
#26. I have memories, but I don't know if they are really mine or if I've just seen so many pictures. I think that I remember riding on his sailboat with him, and playing under his desk in the Oval Office, but those images are everywhere, so do I really remember them or just imagine how it all happened?

Bethany Turner

Oval Office Quotes #795055
#27. For all the folks whose job it was to be ready for [Hurricane] Katrina, but who weren't, from the Oval Office, right down the chain of command to the New Orleans police department, Wal-Mart was a vivid reproach.

Charles Fishman

Oval Office Quotes #814021
#28. When the president offered me this job, he told me that if there were situations in which I needed to speak to him or I needed his advice or I needed to ask him a question, that I could go into the Oval Office and I could ask him.

Josh Earnest

Oval Office Quotes #889282
#29. I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them.

John Key

Oval Office Quotes #889658
#30. Seriously, did I miss something? Did John F. Kennedy walk into the Oval Office one day, only to find Fidel Castro lighting his Cohiba with the American flag while teabagging Jackie?

Sterling Archer

Oval Office Quotes #930752
#31. Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.

Ann Coulter

Oval Office Quotes #938833
#32. This morning President Obama met with Britain's Prince William in the Oval Office. It was a meeting between a symbolic ruler with no real power and the future king of England.

Conan O'Brien

Oval Office Quotes #989280
#33. War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether it's Republican, Democrat, or other. The fact is, these parties are prey to special interests. That is something Eisenhower was afraid of.

Eugene Jarecki

Oval Office Quotes #1006252
#34. I would love to play the President. Give me the suit, give me the power, give me the oval office. That would be really fun.

Patrick Fabian

Oval Office Quotes #1008563
#35. Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.

Ron Fournier

Oval Office Quotes #1076616
#36. I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.'

Leon Panetta

Oval Office Quotes #1100866
#37. No one reaches the Oval Office without a great deal of admiration for the institution - and himself - so it's unsurprising that sitting presidents favor the biographies of former presidents.

Anthony Marra

Oval Office Quotes #1152066
#38. You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the Oval Office ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.

John The Apostle

Oval Office Quotes #1156235
#39. The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are vulnerable. Of course, one thing that seems to set Obama part from his recent predecessors is his ability to keep an inner calm about tough issues.

Chuck Todd

Oval Office Quotes #1185019
#40. The life of every human being on earth can depend on the experience, judgment, and vigilance of the person in the Oval Office.

Jimmy Carter

Oval Office Quotes #1218136
#41. The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

Bob Barr

Oval Office Quotes #1329310
#42. Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

Eban Goodstein

Oval Office Quotes #1331421
#43. I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy years, given the huge responsibilities the president carries across the world.

Nigel Hamilton

Oval Office Quotes #1381710
#44. From the day he first walked through the door of the Oval Office, President Obama's top priority has been growing our economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding middle class security.

Denis McDonough

Oval Office Quotes #1393040
#45. I have a routine for a day I'm in the office and not really physically active. Or a day when I'm in the gym once or in the gym twice. Then I've got a road course routine and an oval routine because they're different physically.

Charlie Kimball

Oval Office Quotes #1432460
#46. 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

Oval Office Quotes #1479130
#47. Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.

Molly Ivins

Oval Office Quotes #1600031
#48. One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

Allison Janney

Oval Office Quotes #1605975
#49. I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

George W. Bush

Oval Office Quotes #1611507
#50. Anyone who can be cool about his first visit to the Oval Office has lost so much body heat that rigor mortis is probably about to set in.

David Frum

Oval Office Quotes #1662943
#51. The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

George H. W. Bush

Oval Office Quotes #1667421
#52. I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.

George W. Bush

Oval Office Quotes #1680236
#53. We have to understand that the closer you get to the corridors of power, to the Oval Office and Congress, the more you become a prisoner of the past .The closer you get to the marginalized, the grassroots and the groundlings, the greater your incentive to think imaginatively and 'outside the box.

Team Colors Collective

Oval Office Quotes #1770708
#54. The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets.

Josh Earnest

Oval Office Quotes #1877871
#55. Chris Christie won by such a wide margin that pundits say this will give him the impetus he needs to run for president. And he's got a new slogan: 'Put the oval in the Oval Office.'

Jay Leno

Oval Office Quotes #1878496

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