Barack Obama Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Office Quotes

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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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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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , War 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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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Office Quotes , Trying Quotes

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Taken 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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Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

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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

Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in 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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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Office Quotes , Important Quotes

To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.

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Tags : Aamir Khan Quotes , Numbers 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

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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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

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Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Office Quotes , President Quotes

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Office Quotes

These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.

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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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Respect Quotes , Office Quotes

Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

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