Quotes About Living In The White House

#1. There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House ... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

Martin Sheen

#2. John McCain said that Barack Obama is already measuring the drapes in the White House. That's what he said. I understand Sarah Palin is already driving McCain around to look at assisted living facilities.

Jay Leno

#3. Becca had only had to deal with technology and administration issues and had thus far been removed from danger while she was in training for the more serious assignments. As the newest, and smallest, employee at the Society, she was too young and innocent to face the grim reality, anyway.

Anne Marie Becker

#4. Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

Jackie Kennedy

#5. What people see the first family do has an effect. And from a slightly different aspect, I think that family living in the White House is going to have a profound effect on many Americans.

George Stevens Jr.

#6. A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place to inhabit. So, don't be afraid to take a stand .

Ankita Singhal

#7. 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

#8. Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Robert W. Service

#9. People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

Robin Williams

#10. I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Bob Brown

#11. I wish I could stop but I could not. I had no other thrill or happiness.

Dennis Nilsen

#12. The ancient house is our chrysalis, trapping us until our metamorphosis is complete: our chic city wings plucked from our backs and we'll emerge as fat, white farm larvae. Like the ones living in the corral cow pies.

Mix Hart

#13. I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

Barbara Bush

#14. Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.

Britt Holewinski

#15. 'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

Yara Shahidi

#16. The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#17. The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.

Ryan White

#18. It seemed a tragedy to want nothing - and yet he wanted something, something. He knew in flashes what it was - some path of hope to lead him toward what he thought was an imminent and ominous old age.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#19. There's a communist living in the White House!

Victoria Jackson

#20. I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

Adam Jones

#21. In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

Bill Watterson

#22. The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

Maureen Dowd