Office Quotes
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
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Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.
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I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
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I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies - and agencies and their offices in Brussels.
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I don't do office work at home.
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I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
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To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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We had a teacher, named Mr. Brown, and he was writing something on the board once - he was writing something on the board, and he farted. And you would have thought kids had seen the face of God. Kids weren't even laughing; they were just sitting there screaming, just screaming. Kids had to get carted out; kids were screaming. Kids had to get carted out, and they were going to the nurses' office. Kids are crying in the hallway. 'Oh, this is our 9/11.' And it was. It was their 9/11 'cause they never thought anything like that could ever happen.
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Anything can happen when people run for office.
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... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.
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The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.
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People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.
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I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces
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The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.
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I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.
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The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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My office is basically my phone.
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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.
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I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.
