| "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 |
| "Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." »Winston Churchill |
| "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 |
| "'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." »Niall MacDermot |
| "Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." »Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "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 |
| "The stream we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence." »Albert Wiggam |
| "No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." »Erma Bombeck |
| "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 |
| "Things could always be worse for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post office." »Adrienne E. Gusoff |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign office where future diplomats are taught to stammer." »Peter Ustinov |
| "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 |
| "Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies." »Woody Allen |
| "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 |
| "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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