| "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 |
| "I want you to stonewall it. (To staff on news of break-in at Watergate)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt." »Ed Meese |
| "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 |
| "When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem." »Bill Vaughan |
| "I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away." »Thomas Tusser |
| "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 |
| "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." »Aesop |
| "Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love." »George Santayana |
| "You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office." »Joe Moore |
| "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 |
| "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. |
| "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 |
| "It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham |
| "I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign office where future diplomats are taught to stammer." »Peter Ustinov |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
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