| "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 |
| "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." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "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 |
| "Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh leave the light of Hope behind." »Thomas Campbell |
| "If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole |
| "And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world." »John Green |
| "You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time" »Bob Moawad |
| "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." »Erma Bombeck |
| "No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "I hereby resign this office of president of the United States." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "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 |
| "The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached." »William Safire |
| "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 |
| "Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love." »George Santayana |
| "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." »Aesop |
| "Things could always be worse for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post office." »Adrienne E. Gusoff |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office." »Joe Moore |
| "The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
| "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso." »Rita Rudner |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign office where future diplomats are taught to stammer." »Peter Ustinov |
| "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 |
| "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." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies." »Woody Allen |
| "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 |
| "If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
