Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

It's - I can't imagine a world - the idea that every day Sarah Huckabee Sanders briefs, Donald Trump stops what he's doing and turns on the TV and watches it while eating a Taco Bell or whatever he eats. And then she has to go into his office afterwards and get critiqued on it.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

I've always believed that the fundamental, driving strategic ethos of the Republican House leadership has been, 'What do we do to get through the next caucus or conference without getting yelled at?' We should never assume they have a long game.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

I sometimes think, as bad as things seem for progressives in this world in the Trump era, it's worse than we think it is.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

There's a lot of work you have to do before you ever fire the starting gun on a health reform bill - doing the scut work with members of Congress, talking to your allies - to figure out the best plan.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

What drives 90 percent of stuff is not the small tactical decisions or the personal relationships but the big, macro political incentives.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

I was incredibly - I've never been more confident of anything in my life that Hillary Clinton was going to win and Donald Trump would lose by a very large margin.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

It wasn't until Trump won that I thought back to all the things that I dealt with in the White House and that President Obama dealt with - the political forces, the changes in media and technology, the radicalization of the Right.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won't extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

What I am unable to understand with the people who associate themselves with Trump is their willingness to overlook the dishonesty, the indecency, the lack of empathy, to be asked to go out every single day and why.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

We always say in the Obama world, in the toughest times, you can laugh or you can cry, so you might as well laugh.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

There's never been a time when we've taken progressive action and regretted it.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

The greatest danger zone a president can be in is when he is being attacked on the left and the right.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

I think politics is an incredibly noble and fulfilling enterprise, and it's the best way to do the most good for the most people.

Daniel Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfeiffer

I worry that, given the way the 2016 election went, how cynical and how terrible politics seems, that young people will be less likely to get involved.