George W. Bush Quotes

Pennsylvania Avenue

I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?

I'm going to live in the White House with my family.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me.

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.

The White House is a strange place.

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.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.

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

I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.

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

The White House seems to be a sound-proof booth.

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

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

Every vice president since Mondale has lived up on this hill, on the twelve-acre campus of the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington. It's a pretty house with a wraparound porch and a white turret.

I've always had a picture of the White House and it would always sit right in front of my desk. Whenever I was having a hard day I could look at it and remember what my goal was.

I guess the White House is kind of confining.

Anybody who gets into bed and turns out the lights the first night in the White House probably feels a little bit of a start, where you say, "Goodness ... "

The White House, as Warren Harding said, and I think accurately, is an alchemist. We find out the strengths, the weaknesses and the smarts and the dumbs of whoever those occupants are under the pressure of the presidency.

Barack Obama's busy moving into the White House. Earlier today, John McCain was blowing on his soup.

That is the White House, where you can fit four times the amount of people in the press conference, allowing more press, more coverage from all over the country to have those press conferences. That's what we're talking about.