Andrew Cuomo Quotes

I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.

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

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 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.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

I'm an appointee of President Obama.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

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 deputy assistant to the president. My job was strategist in the office of the chief strategist, Stephen Bannon. Somebody once described me as the president's national security utility infielder.

I think the White House is a better place for not having a Steve Bannon in it.

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

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

My experience at the White House was invaluable.

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

At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016.

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.