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"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office." »H.L. Mencken
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"I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive office Building)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"The chief business of the American people is business." »Calvin Coolidge
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"Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly." »Aldus Manutius
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"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." »David Letterman
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"For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business." »D. W. Brogan
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"Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"There's no business like show business." »Irving Berlin
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"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." »Ambrose Bierce
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"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were." »John F. Kennedy
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." »Erma Bombeck
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"I hereby resign this office of president of the United States." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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"I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better." »Harry S Truman
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"The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached." »William Safire
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"Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." »David Broder
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"Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love." »George Santayana
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"Things could always be worse for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post office." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." »Aesop
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"You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis." »John Dean
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"I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso." »Rita Rudner
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"When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page." »Bill Clinton
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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." »Quintus Fabius Maximus
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"A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over." »Josh Billings
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"You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office." »Joe Moore
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"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." »Robert Frost
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"The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office)." »Faith Popcorn
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"J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it." »Spider-Man
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