You're literally at the border of where the President's privacy and public duties sit -- you have to have the right touch and right skill set, stephen Goepfert has had the ability and the willingness to help the President navigate everything he did throughout the day. That ends up being a critical role.

Steve Ricchetti

There is nothing that President Biden values more than authentic personal connection with people who President Biden meets along the way, how Stephen Goepfert treats other people alongside of Stephen Goepfert is vitally important as an expression of who the President is -- and Stephen Goepfert is just phenomenal at that.

Steve Ricchetti

Not a lot of drama. Not a lot of hyperventilation, just do the work.

Steve Ricchetti

You hear the President say it all the time : Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the finest Speaker of the House in the history of our country, speaker Nancy Pelosi always comes through. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was the heart of our effort to pass infrastructure through the The House, and there's just no one like the Speaker.

Steve Ricchetti

There were so many times -- sometimes multiple times a day -- when a bill was dead and Speaker Nancy Pelosi was able to put the paddles on and revive it. you hear the President say it all the time : Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the finest Speaker of the House in the history of our country.

Steve Ricchetti

He just set a high bar, a strong direction and expectation that President Joe Biden would be very responsive and alert to what's going on up there.

Steve Ricchetti

People really felt committed to one another in this and I think everyone thought it was important for the country to send this signal that we could work together in this way.

Steve Ricchetti

The President and the team tried to keep as many avenues to success open in this kind of bipartisan structure in the hope that we could keep getting closer and closer.

Steve Ricchetti

I think we've got to keep working on all of it; that is what we campaigned to do and what we are going to do, i do not think the assessment of how we are doing becomes harsh if any one thing takes longer to get done. I really think making historic progress in the way we've had, with what's in front of us, will allow us to create momentum to get other things done on top of it.

Steve Ricchetti