Arms Quote by John DiIulio

White House staff are meant to coordinate and set policy, not carry it out.

— Richard N. Haass

Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.

— Vladimir Putin

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

— Bill Maher

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their…

— Anonymous

The president has to govern.

— Amy Klobuchar

Let's face it, the White House is a treacherous place.

— Michael Caputo

I guess the White House is kind of confining.

— Jill Biden

“The good things that have been done, the reforms . . . all of that was not done by government edict. . . .…

— Howard Zinn

When a president doesn't know the policy, it doesn't make for a very effective leader.

— H. W. Brands

I don't know enough about politics to act like I know anything that's going on or what anybody's standing for policy-wise.

— Jelly Roll

Since the president's [Barack Obama] lost all of that [majority in Senate], he now has decided he's just going to write laws on his…

— Chris Christie

I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch…

— John C. Calhoun