Presidential Administration Quotes

You would not believe the amount of feedback I've gotten over people binge-watching The West Wing. Most of them have binge-watched it countless times.

I met Donald Trump in 2003 on a reality show. Could you ever imagine then that we would end up in the White House together?

In 1971, near the middle of Nixon's first term, he approved a plan to install a White House taping system as a way of preserving an accurate chronicle of important discussions and decisions. Except for Nixon, three aides, and the Secret Service, no one knew about the listening devices.

I grow more conservative every day on the question of removals. On ex parte statements, I have made mistakes in removing men who, perhaps, ought to have been retained, and in appointing wrong men. Not many removals have been made. Less than any Administration since John Q. Adams. But I shall be more cautious in future; make removals only in clear cases, and appoint only on the best and fullest evidence of fitness.

Anyone who listens to the Nixon White House would recognize that Nixon, who was in the Navy, was no stranger to profanity.

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.

[Donald Trump] will be the president of the United States.

I got nothing against Barack Obama; I just might not like some of his policies and the people he surrounds himself with.

Tony Snow, the White House spokesman and resident fantasist …

I would love to interview Sean Spicer.

I know Obama knows better than George W. Bush.

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.

There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House.

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

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th President of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. And those who didn't vote for him have to recognize that that's how democracy works. That's how this system operates.

The story of the eighties will be the story of the Reagan administration and the many men and women who served in it, some of whom are already out on parole.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

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.

When you are talking to Dick Cheney, you are talking to me.

Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.

The conversations have been cordial. [Donald Trump] has been open to suggestions, and the main thing that I've tried to transmit is that there's a different between governing and campaigning, so that what he has to appreciate is as soon as you walk into this office after you've been sworn in, you're now in charge of the largest organization on Earth.

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.

We have every confidence that people within the White House have behaved appropriately.

I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there.