Al Franken Quotes, Office Quotes, Wish Quotes

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

6 years ago

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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.

5 years ago

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Office Quotes , Shining Quotes

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Office Quotes

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Kings Quotes , Office Quotes

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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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Book 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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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Running Quotes , Office Quotes

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Office Quotes

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Mean Quotes , Office Quotes

Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Office Quotes

I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Men Quotes , Office Quotes

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Men Quotes , Office Quotes

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 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.

5 years ago

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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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Tags : Plato Quotes , Hands Quotes , Office Quotes

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Office Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Life Quotes , Office Quotes

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Office Quotes , Nautical Quotes

I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Office Quotes , Waiting Quotes

There is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Office Quotes

His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Office Quotes , Political Quotes