Office Quotes - Page 29

• If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

  Russ Feingold

  Should, Congress, Members

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• I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Uplifting, Hurt, Hard Times

  "Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History". Book edited by George D. Smith, April 1992.

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• Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many women, [it] is not a coercive action. It is rather part of a package deal in which the secretary agrees to all aspects of the job when she agrees to accept the job, and especially when she agrees to keep the job. The office is, after all, private property. The secretary does not have to remain if the 'coercion' is objectionable.

  Walter Block

  Jobs, Boss, Coercion

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• Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims on the regular doesn't mean we have to, too. French commentators are already calling for DSK to jump back into the country's presidential race and ride a wave of sympathy into office. Really, the stakes are greater than even that political prize. If we accept the narrative that only perfect women are raped, we risk sacrificing justice not only for this woman, but for victims of sexual assault everywhere. After all, nobody's perfect.

  Jaclyn Friedman

  Country, Mean, Sacrifice

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• George Clooney says he's had sex with too many women to ever run for office. He was immediately made Prime Minister of Italy.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Sex, Prime

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• HR?'
  'Human Resources.'
  'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Sound, Kind, Resources

  Peter F. Hamilton (2012). “Great North Road”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

  Chris Brasher

  School, Shapes, Married

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• Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it!

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Intelligent, Men, President

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• The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.

  James P. Hogan

  Cheating, Opposites, Skills

  James P. Hogan (1983). “Code of the Lifemaker”, Del Rey

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

  Harry Browne

  Believe, Winning, Political

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• For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy, entrusting government with power that we would never entrust to our neighbors or other private citizens might seem sensible. To me, it's dangerous, unjustified, and unjustifiable.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Government, Political, Important

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• If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

  Steven Moffat

  Monsters, Toys, Said

  "Steven Moffat: The man with a monster of a job". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2010.

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• Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office.

  Neal Boortz

  Block, Achievement, Political

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• I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.

  Robert E. Lee

  Party, Intelligent, Men

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.241, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Great offices will have great talents.

  William Cowper

  Greatness, Talent, Great Office

  William Cowper, John Corry (1820). “The Beauties of Cowper; Or, Extracts ... for the Use of Schools ... By John Corry”, p.13

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• I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar manner, responsible for their conduct, and subject him to impeachment himself, if he suffers them to perpetrate with impunity high crimes or misdemeanors against the United States, or neglects to superintend their conduct, so as to check their excesses.

  James Madison

  Thinking, Should Have, Suffering

  James Madison (1904). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787-1790”

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• It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others. In this sense, the Organization is first of all their Organization and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Believe, Organization, Long

  Statement to the General Assembly of the United Nations, October 03, 1960.

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• No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

  Thomas E. Dewey

  Men, Should, More Money

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• Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Love And Friendship, Leisure

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

  Richard M. Nixon

  President, Answers, Want

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• To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.

  Steve Garvey

  Sacrifice, People, Personality

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• I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.'

  Leon Panetta

  Thinking, Priorities, President

  "Transcript of interview with CIA director Panetta". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Memories, Thinking, Games

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• It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

  Jilly Cooper

  Pressure, Terrible

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• As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Letting Go, Kindness, Wish

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