Mike McCurry Quotes

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

The bloke who ends up sitting in the White House partially controls what we [the British] get up to.

White House

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

I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.

At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

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

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.

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.

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

One of my goals, is to make the House co-equal with the White House.

You really don’t know what you don’t know until you’re here. [The White House]

The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.

When I first went to work in the West Wing, the most daunting thing was how small this place was... You walk in: it's three floors, and there's a few offices on each floor, and that's it.

I guess the White House is kind of confining.

The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the center of politics was Congress.

It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.

I actually think, as unusual as it might sound, that working in the White House is an extraordinary life.

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

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

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the very center of the federal city. The White House and the Supreme Court are set about us, satellites to the supreme power of the people expressed in the legislative authority of Congress.

I guess I would use my son's word: cool. It was cool to work in the White House.