Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

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

The White House is a strange place.

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.

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

White House

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

I guess the White House is kind of confining.

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

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.

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.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

I've been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.

That man in the White House

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

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

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

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

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

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

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.

Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.

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.

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.