Jeff Greenfield Quotes

I know Obama knows better than George W. Bush.

Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him.

Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.

Gerald Ford is the first President of the United States to be elected by a majority of one—and nobody demanded a recount.

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

I'm an appointee of President Obama.

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

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

Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

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

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

I have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and I worked closely with President George W. Bush and the White House then after 9/11, and I served with President Obama. I disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things.

Me a President? I would be a worse President than George W. Bush if such a thing is possible.

We’ve had some great presidents in my lifetime. I haven’t agreed completely with any of them.

I stood respectfully as Ronald Reagan was sworn in to his second term though I disagreed with him on many issues. I stood as well for the inauguration of George W. Bush's second term though I thought his war in Iraq was a tragic mistake.

Obama was never that bad or that great, and the same is probably going to go for Trump.

Most people in Washington assumed if Obama made it to the White House he would appoint Biden as his secretary of state, a position Biden openly admitted he wanted.

Donald Trump is talking about the failed leadership of the Obama Administration.

If the Vice President were not to be President of the Senate, he would be without employment.