Barack Obama Quotes, Years Quotes, Office Quotes

If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt who waited, well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected.

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There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.

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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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If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

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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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I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

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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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

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I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile.

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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

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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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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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The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

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There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.

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The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.

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I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

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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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I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do so.

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