#office

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people. ↗

— Rodney King

#been #before #black #doors #doubt

I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office. ↗

— Joseph Force Crater

#always #because #charge #enjoyed #experience

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

#discipline #enemy #fear #making #more

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#back #before #ever #long #long time

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people? ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#fellow #his #holding #inherently #life

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#canadian #chief #flight #houston #i

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#course #critical #decision #events #high

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office. ↗

— Mary Hart

#box #box office #draw #just #martial

Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#army #build #helped #officers #own

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#executive #hell #legislature #men #office