#office

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#common #common sense #decency #everything #favor

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself. ↗

— James A. Michener

#army #done #her #herself #i

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time. ↗

— Phil Mickelson

#ago #amanda #daughter #i #just

One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients. ↗

— David Miliband

#commonwealth #crown #economics #especially #essential

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#end #had #lost #office #our

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#been #berlin #central #contact #germany

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.' ↗

— Jessica Mitford

#election #faster #much #office #people

In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#agents #also #context #day #firemen

What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#also #attaches #bring #field #legal

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#always #any #been #go #guarantor