Office Quotes - Page 7

When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.

I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important thing was that every one of those pardons Clinton sold for cash on his last day in office was signed by Bill Clinton personally.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on.

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

When you're rich, you want a Republican in office.

Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don't quite fit in anywhere. And then you walk into a room one day, whether it's at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, 'Ah. There they are.' And suddenly you feel at home.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.

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

The first guy who got Aids was a French flight attendant. How you like that Frenchie! You know when I come back and run for office, that may be the one that comes back and haunts me.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.