Mary Lasker Quotes

That man in the White House

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

I have not heard from President Barack. I've never gotten a phone call.

I'm an appointee of President Obama.

Bernard Baruch is the acting President of the United States.

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

Yes, Barack Obama could easily be cast as an American president in a movie or TV show.

Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

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

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.

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'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.

I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.

I think it would be so much fun to be in the White House.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

Bernie, my boyfriend Bill Clinton, is going to be President of the United States.

Nobody lives there [the White House]—they [Presidents] just come and go.

It had better be known in the outset whether the President is the head of the government or the registering clerk of the Senate.

Do you take the President of the United States to he a commission broker? You have come to the wrong place, and for you and every one who comes for such purposes, there is the door!

The office moves with the President

The President [George W. Bush] has assembled a very effective White House staff. They do not squabble among themselves, and the do not leak indiscriminately—as opposed to discriminately.