Fred F. Fielding Quotes

The nature of the Presidency is such that you are always asking yourself what else could you be doing?.

There is no human-resources training for how to respond when you work for an unpredictable president. It's perhaps fitting that when you visit the website of the White House Office of Administration it says, 'Check back soon for more information.'

The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.

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.

The President has rarely leisure to give close or continuous attention to foreign policy.

The nature of the presidency is such that you cannot isolate yourself.

The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.

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

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position.

My liberal friends love to dismiss Reagan. You know, they'll say something like, 'Oh, didn't he, like, only read one-page memos when he was in the White House?' Well, that's just good managerial practice. I mean, Franklin Roosevelt made people write one-page memos.

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

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

'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

The office of the President is so staggeringly complicated that nobody can ... be a good President.

The most difficult issues—the toughest decisions—are the ones that invariably end up on the President’s desk.

In the White House there is always struggle and contention.

The presidency is not about easy choices.

No White House staff person wants to conflict with the First Lady who goes home and has the ear of the President all night.

Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.

Giving Obama credit for killing Bin Laden is Ike giving Harry Truman credit for dropping the [atomic] bomb: any president would’ve pushed that button.

No easy problems ever come to the President. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.

Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.