“Some matters are not appropriate to convey to him, and this is one of them.” — Jay Carney yesterday, on why no one in the White House
told the president what was going on at the IRS
“I don’t remember what room the president was in on that night, and that’s a largely irrelevant fact.” — White House aide Dan Pfeiffer, responding over the weekend to questions about where the president was when our ambassador in Benghazi was under attack.
“What difference, at this point, does it make?” — Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, after delaying for months Congressional on Benghazi.
“We can’t have the hands-off, head-in-the-sand attitude that we’ve had over the last eight years.” — Candidate Barack Obama during his 2008 campaign, accusing President George W. Bush of being absent on the financial crisis