I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times.
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.
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.
If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.
I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something that a friend owns.
I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.
The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable." [ (The White House, July 25, 1961)]
When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.
C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected.
My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.
It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.
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.
What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.
If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?
So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
Aegean Islands 1940-41 Where white stares, smokes or breaks, Thread white, white of plaster and of foam, Where sea like a wall falls; Ribbed, lionish coast, The stony islands which blow into my mind More often than I imagine my grassy home; To sun on...
In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergone a process of change. The white man takes such things as words and literatures for granted, as indeed he must, for nothing in his world is so common...
Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.
