George W. Bush Quotes, Running Quotes, Office Quotes

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

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As Gerhard Schröder said in the Oval Office, a democratic Iraq is important not only to Germany, but to Europe, and he's right.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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As Gerhard Schröder said in the Oval Office, a democratic Iraq is important not only to Germany, but to Europe, and he's right.

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Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

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The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

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Who you are, what you are, does not change after you occupy the oval office. All it does is magnify who you are. All it does is shine a spotlight on who you are.

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

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One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.

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Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.

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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

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Tags : A. E. van Vogt Quotes , Simple Quotes , Office Quotes

The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.

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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

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When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

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All I care about is making sure that I leave behind an America that is stronger, more prosperous, more stable, more secure than it was when I came into office and that's going to continue to drive me.

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