Karl Rove 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 never dreamed I would one day work at it 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.

I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.

I worked in the Clinton administration.

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

I actually think, as unusual as it might sound, that working in the White House is an extraordinary life.

The one thing I didn't want to do was a show about the White House. I was too close to it.

I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.

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.

My role is not to be the President’s friend….When I am no longer the Chief of Staff, I expect to be the President’s friend.

Working in the White House is a relentlessly demanding responsibility.

I am not seeking any position in a Dole Administration.

Yeah, I want a job in Barack's Cabinet. How about a job, Mr. Obama? Please? Please?

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.

My second child came in September 2008, and I joined the Obama transition team in November. I was part of the group that opened the White House doors on Inauguration Day. And then I basically didn't leave for two years.

My experience at the White House was invaluable.

I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions.

In terms of going into the West Wing, I will do whatever the president-elect and the vice president-elect - I worked with Mike Pence for 10 years - they believe is my best and highest use for them.

I ended up being the 43rd president of the United States. It was an awesome experience, and I'm glad I did it.

I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee.