Famous quotes containing the words white, house and/or chief:
“Judge Ginsburgs selection should be a modelchosen on merit and not ideology, despite some naysaying, with little advance publicity. Her treatment could begin to overturn a terrible precedent: that is, that the most terrifying sentence among the accomplished in America has become, Honeythe White House is on the phone.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
Nothing but Cromwells house and Cromwells murderous crew,
The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“After all, the chief business of the American people is business.”
—Calvin Coolidge (18721933)