A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
~By Louis XIV ~
Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
~By Shirley MacLaine ~
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.
~By John L. Lewis ~
The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
~By Nancy Travis ~
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
~By Charles Eastman ~
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
~By Samuel Dash ~
Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
~By Arthur Hiller ~
Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars.
~By Rob Paulsen ~
In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
~By Laura Bush ~
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.
~By Henry L. Stimson ~
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
~By Eliza Farnham ~
If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.
~By Chris Wedge ~
Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.
~By John Blair ~
Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.
~By Betty Hill ~
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
~By Rita Rudner ~
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
~By John Andre ~
I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.
~By Heloise Cruse ~
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
~By Mae West ~
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
~By Douglass North ~
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.
~By Jane Harman ~
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
~By Ann Coulter ~
I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
~By Asne Seierstad ~
Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational.
~By David Walker ~
It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
~By Paul Samuelson ~
The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.
~By Ernest Borgnine ~
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.
~By Susie Bright ~
When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.
~By William Kunstler ~
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
~By James Longstreet ~
I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known.
~By Confucius ~
Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.
~By Alan Ladd ~
The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
~By Gary Gygax ~
Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.
~By Charles Edison ~
One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.
~By Bobby Scott ~
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.
~By Eisaku Sato ~
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.
~By Dennis Miller ~
If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.
~By Christopher Gadsden ~
No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
~By Edward Livingston ~
Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.
~By Fritz Kreisler ~
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare.
~By Christina Romer ~
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
~By James Levine ~
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
~By Charles Lamb ~
The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.
~By Peter King ~
Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.
~By Liz Carpenter ~
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
~By Deng Xiaoping ~
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
~By Orhan Pamuk ~
I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.
~By Trent Lott ~
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
~By Richard J. Daley ~
I am a goal setter and I set more goals everyday. I keep lists of goals in my office to stay on track.
~By Kiana Tom ~
The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.
~By Michael Medved ~
Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.
~By John H. Morgan ~
The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.
~By John Burns ~
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
~By Estelle Morris ~
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.
~By Elliott Carter ~
It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.
~By Nick Clooney ~
President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.
~By Tom Allen ~
I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.
~By Rob Corddry ~
There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.
~By Tim Robbins ~
There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.
~By Michael Gartner ~
I give no more paroles to British officers.
~By Christopher Gadsden ~
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
~By Robert Frost ~
We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.
~By Charlie Norwood ~
I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.
~By Esther Williams ~
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
~By Jacques Verges ~
I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.
~By Georgie Fame ~
It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.
~By George Barr McCutcheon ~
My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
~By Derek Jeter ~
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
~By David Broder ~
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
~By Hans Frank ~
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
~By Robert Teeter ~
But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?
~By Ron Silver ~
For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.
~By Tony Curtis ~
I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.
~By Robert Mueller ~
Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.
~By Neil LaBute ~
But I have made no plans to run for any office right now.
~By Roy Moore ~
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
~By Robert Burton ~
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.
~By James K. Polk ~
We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.
~By John Abizaid ~
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