Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
~By Jared Sparks ~
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
~By Charles Ruff ~
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 ~
Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.
~By Agnes Macphail ~
In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.
~By Linda M. Godwin ~
Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.
~By Robert Mugabe ~
Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
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 grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.
~By Rick Perry ~
County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
~By Arthur Capper ~
I can record auditions from my office in my home.
~By Jason Marsden ~
Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.
~By Jennifer Saunders ~
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
~By Barack Obama ~
Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
~By Sylvia Kristel ~
With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman.
~By Jeffrey Hunter ~
No man should have a political office because he wants a job.
~By Franklin Knight Lane ~
Only the Russian Cultural Officer was interested in my project.
~By Wolfgang Staudte ~
I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
~By Orville Redenbacher ~
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 ~
What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.
~By Jim Wallis ~
My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
~By Alexandra Kosteniuk ~
No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.
~By Scott Stapp ~
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.
~By Ralph Allen ~
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
~By Yahoo Serious ~
I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.
~By James McGreevey ~
I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.
~By Russ Feingold ~
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
~By John Boehner ~
Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.
~By Charles Hodge ~
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
~By Jimmy Breslin ~
Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
~By Louis XIV ~
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
~By Harold Wilson ~
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
~By Erich Maria Remarque ~
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, FA Crusaders.
~By James Stockdale ~
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me.
~By Lauren Bush ~
Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.
~By Bill Forsyth ~
I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
~By Rand Paul ~
In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.
~By Terry Gilliam ~
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
~By Charles Babbage ~
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
~By William Weld ~
I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.
~By William Joyce ~
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
~By Woody Allen ~
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
~By Charles Edward Montague ~
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 ~
I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
~By William Hull ~
A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.
~By Blake Edwards ~
Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
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 ~
My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.
~By William J. Clinton ~
Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.
~By William Odom ~
At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.
~By Hugh Grant ~
So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.
~By Colin Quinn ~
My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
~By Jack Adams ~
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 ~
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.
~By Meg Whitman ~
The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
~By Jackie Cooper ~
All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.
~By Philip Gibbs ~
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
~By Jack Adams ~
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
~By Harriet Martineau ~
I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.
~By John Zorn ~
You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
~By J. Irwin Miller ~
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
~By Claude Adrien Helvetius ~
I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.
~By Charles Vest ~
The music industry over there seems to treat America like it's one territory even though they got offices in different parts of America - they're still quite sort of 'America is the territory.'
~By Sean Booth ~
Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.
~By Roy Moore ~
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
~By Anthony Wayne ~
In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.
~By Robin Yount ~
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
~By Harrison Ford ~
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
~By Karel Capek ~
Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.
~By Jim Cooper ~
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 ~
If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
~By Henry Clay ~
You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.
~By Claus von Stauffenberg ~
When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.
~By Kenneth Starr ~
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
~By Katharine Whitehorn ~
The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.
~By Bobby Darin ~
Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
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 may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
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