John Roberts Quotes

I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years.

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

I never set out to work in the White House.

The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Working in the White House is a relentlessly demanding responsibility.

Every president needs an S. O. B.

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'm an appointee of President Obama.

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.

My role is not to be the President’s friend….When I am no longer the Chief of Staff, I expect to be the President’s friend.

I've talked to several who have been approached for short- or long-term duty in the Trump administration. The evidence of the work environment that mounts with each passing day makes them highly wary.

I got to meet one Chief of Staff: Sam Skinner. He was Chief of Staff at the end of George Sr.'s White House.

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

In terms of going into the West Wing, I will do whatever the president-elect and the vice president-elect - I worked with Mike Pence for 10 years - they believe is my best and highest use for them.

I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.

I think the Social Office is really the office where East meets West. For those that don't know, the East side is typically the First Lady's side of the house. The West side is typically the President's side of the house.

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

Besieged by lawsuits that threatened to engulf almost everyone at the White House, Clinton assistants shunned paper or e-mail records of their daily deliberations. One told me that he would go down the hall to confer with his division chief face to face rather than discuss an issue on the telephone.

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.

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

In Democratic administrations, I visit the White House.

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.