Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Foley

A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

P. J. O'Rourke

To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

Marya Mannes

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

Michel de Montaigne

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

Michael Scheuer

So what we have is an American foreign policy that is inextricably linked to domestic matters. It is very dangerous for a politician who desires nothing more than to stay in office to address the mindset that any change in policy is appeasement. And Americans will accept that for a certain amount of time.

Michael Newdow

No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

Mark Twain

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

Chris Matthews

The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.

George Washington

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

George Washington

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.

George Washington

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.

Nancy Pelosi

This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

Mikhail Prokhorov

My love affairs are just between my office and gym.

Joseph Addison

There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

Jose Marti

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

James McGreevey

Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

James McGreevey

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

Epictetus

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.

Henry Spencer

If I must be ruled by larcenous bullies, I much prefer that they be located far away. Local bullies know far more about me and my doings than faraway bullies sitting in offices in Washington, and can oppress me far more effectively.

Henry James

The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.

Helen Thomas

I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants...The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why.

Khaled Hosseini

The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden from holding office in the future government. And finally, NATO agreed to expand the peacekeeping forces to troubled areas outside of Kabul.

Mason Cooley

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Manmohan Singh

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

Harvey Gantt

There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayors office.

Jimmy Breslin

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Ralph Nader

This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.

Serena Williams

Venus [Williams] has an amazing line; I love her collection. I'm always at her office. She has an interior design company and her EleVen company. They have a wonderful office space and I'm always there for the interior part and get to see what she's doing with EleVen.

John the Apostle

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.

Seth Gordon

A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.

Tom Allen

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office