Elliott Abrams Quotes

I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.

I never set out to work in the White House.

The last book I read to my mom was 'Barbara Bush: A Memoir' published by mom in 1994. It reflected on their entire life - dad going to China, running the CIA, running for Senate, running for President twice.

Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of stuff that happened to me.

I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years.

I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

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.

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side.

When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

'W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film.

I told my whole life story in my book.

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.

I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.

I have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and I worked closely with President George W. Bush and the White House then after 9/11, and I served with President Obama. I disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium