Kristen Welker Quotes

This is the American moment in world history and one for which we shall ever be judged.

Presidents live and work in a house of history. They dwell with ghosts. Present power and the weight of the past are ambient realities of daily life in the presidency, and the two are intimately connected.

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

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

There's a staircase on the first floor of the Capitol that I walk every day. It's made of marble, and as you walk those steps, you think of those who've walked before you. You think of the challenges that the country's faced.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when it's empty, and you can go stand in the Capitol rotunda and bask in the silence of history. You can sort of imagine all of the things that have happened inside that Rotunda from presidents lying in state to other important events.

Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

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

Young man, I have lived in this house many years and have seen the occupants of the White House across the square come and go, and nothing you minor officials or the occupant of that house can do will affect the history of the world for long.

A great man represents a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists of his being there.

All states need to hallow themselves with the dignity of the past.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

Donald Trump, perhaps the least historically minded man ever to reach the pinnacle of power, has fallen under the spell of what (and who) has come before. What's revealing about a President's sense of history is less about the history itself than about what that President's perspective on the history tells us about him.

If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

Every time you play for your country, there is responsibility. But when you are captaining, you can say so; you have to lead from the front and make sure the team follows the direction you want them to.

There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them.

The presidency is, in many ways, America's comment on itself; our collective national costume. In the occupant of our sole nationwide elected office, we see who we think we are, or who we want to be.

It's an honor, it's a privilege to be able to be one of the guys leading your country out, especially in a World Cup. It's something that you'll be able to tell your grandkids about.