Office Quotes · Page 32

Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

— Harry Browne

The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

— Paul Ryan

I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat-cat bankers on Wall Street.

— Barack Obama

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

— Enid Nemy

At the end of the day, when you are in the front office, your tenure is dictated by the people surrounding you.

— Bill Goldberg

The funny thing about 'Office Space' is I almost never get my lines quoted back to me.

— Ron Livingston

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

— Barry Eisler

Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the…

— Tina Brown

[Hillart Clinton] holds the illusion that we can make fossil fuel safe, and that they are safe, and she established an office…

— Jill Stein

From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military…

— Robert Dallek

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices…

— Horace Bushnell

I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and…

— Ramon Rodriguez

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know…

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

When I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing. Sometimes…

— Michelle Obama

Those in public office who do not love the people are thieves stealing salaries. Those who teach but do not themselves practice…

— Zicheng Hong

If you're looking for an adventure, an intellectual challenge, and a close-knit community of professionals, consider land surveying! It's not for everyone,…

— Mark Mason

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the…

— Nancy Gibbs

Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape. It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know, Have always known, know that…

— Philip Larkin

One of the reasons I'm in this business is because I have absolute respect for the people who say, "You know what?…

— Roger Ailes

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's…

— Ben Mezrich

“Office not required” isn’t just the future—it’s the present. Now is your chance to catch up.”

— Anonymous

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

— Hill Harper

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

— Lord Acton

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.

— George Clooney

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I haven't dunked since Bill Clinton was in office, so I'm just happy for anyone who can do so without a trampoline.

— LZ Granderson

“Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the office, you kind of lose sight. You have to go to the restaurants to see what's really happening.

— Daniel Schwartz

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

— Ellen Page

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run…

— Michael Moore

Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.

— Marilyn vos Savant

I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.

— Wangari Maathai

I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office.

— Hillary Clinton

One of the most welcome aspects of office work is that you do not need to be fully yourself.

— Alain de Botton

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

— Franklin Knight Lane