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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

What Trump represents is a restoration - a restoration of true American capitalism.