Robert Draper Quotes

I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Executive Office Building. I didn't rate one in the West Wing; but don't try to tell me or any of the rest of us working there that we weren't working in the White House.

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.

Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.

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

Soon the Oval Office will be his [ Donald Trump] office, his home.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.

I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter.

I have not heard from President Barack. I've never gotten a phone call.

Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.

I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.

In Democratic administrations, I visit the White House.

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'

The door to the White House hinges on timing.

The social power of the Presidency is one of the most powerful tools a President can use.

I will not take orders from Bob Haldeman and the West Wing. Unless I can take orders from you only, I am going to resign.

In the White House there is nothing more valuable than the President’s time.

I don't particularly want to be in the White House.

As everyone knows, I have never been a fan of George Bush's presidency.

We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.

I guess the White House is kind of confining.

My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a coat and tie. Bill Clinton has such disrespect for the presidency that he was often in the Oval Office without his pants. Behold the leader of 'the most ethical administration in history'.

The Republicans have, with some pride - George W. Bush won the White House by promising to restore dignity to the Oval Office. And they were or presented themselves as the family - the party of family values.

I have talked to Barack Obama about Star Wars recently, in the Oval Office, and he is definitely a fan. Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution creates executive privilege, and as for government regulation and information policy, so too for Star Wars, I will not disclose discussions in private with the President of the United States.