Cheryl Mills 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 never set out to work in the White House.

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 first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.

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.

Working in the White House is a relentlessly demanding responsibility.

I got to meet one Chief of Staff: Sam Skinner. He was Chief of Staff at the end of George Sr.'s White House.

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

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

What happens in the White House stays in the White House.

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Every president needs an S. O. B.

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

When you serve, whether it's here in the House or in the White House or anywhere else, it's a distinct honor and privilege and so that's about the extent of it.

I guess I would use my son's word: cool. It was cool to work in the White House.

Who knows? Maybe someday I'll be living in the White House.

The president's personal staff has a unique role.

I'm an appointee of President Obama.

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.

Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.

Besieged by lawsuits that threatened to engulf almost everyone at the White House, Clinton assistants shunned paper or e-mail records of their daily deliberations. One told me that he would go down the hall to confer with his division chief face to face rather than discuss an issue on the telephone.

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.

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

In Democratic administrations, I visit the White House.