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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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"If you take flight from responsibility, please by a round-trip ticket because you will end up where you are now." »Chuck Sanderson
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"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." »Henry Kissinger
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"Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall." »Max Lerner
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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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"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"There are no office hours for leaders." »Cardinal James Gibbons
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"Virtue has its own reward, but no box office." »Mae West
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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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"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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"Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God." »Saint Thomas More, upon being executed
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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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"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 genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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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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"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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"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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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." »Aesop
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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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"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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"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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"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 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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"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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"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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