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Office Quotes


"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."


"I got off the abutment and walked towards my office."


"Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate."


"The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot."


"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."


"If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office."


"Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years."


"The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself."


"If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect."


"I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office."


"It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office."


"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."


"Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November."


"You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands."


"While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant."


"It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check."


"I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office."


"Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?"


"It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills."


"Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur."


"I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable."


"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."


"For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office."


"Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch."


"As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this."


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


"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief."


"The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out."


"It's easier to run for office than to run the office."


"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."


"I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5."


"It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President "polarizing" after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years in office."


"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."



"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."


"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."


"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot."


"Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office."


"The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one."


"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
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