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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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"I want you to stonewall it. (To staff on news of break-in at Watergate)" »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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"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
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"You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt." »Ed Meese
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"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem." »Bill Vaughan
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"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
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"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind." »Jean Kerr
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"Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." »Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
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"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
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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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"Virtue has its own reward, but no box office." »Mae West
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"There are no office hours for leaders." »Cardinal James Gibbons
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." »Erma Bombeck
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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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"Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God." »Saint Thomas More, upon being executed
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants." »Alben W. Barkley, U.S Vice President (1949-1953)
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"I hereby resign this office of president of the United States." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly." »Frederick William Robertson
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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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"No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it." »John Adams
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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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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." »Aesop
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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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"If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States." »H. L. Mencken
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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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"Things could always be worse for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post office." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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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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