House Quotes

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.

There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.

If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works. For years, Nielsen has been based on sampling. It's not like an electronic bullet that hits your house that tells the people at networks at all times what you're watching.

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

A man's house is his castle.

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.

Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'