#office

Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will. ↗

— John Sununu

#ballot #elected #find #get #great

All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#afterwards #away #came #demanded #i

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us. ↗

— George Tenet

#break #culture #drag #ever #faith

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it. ↗

— James Hillman

#higher #how #jobs #like #men

I win my awards at the box office. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#box #box office #i #office #win

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

#arts #being #each #embellish #found

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers. ↗

— Trent Lott

#fan #his #i #listens #officers

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. ↗

— George Lucas

#box #box office #boy #girl #hand-in-hand

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#child #citizen #controlling #existence #government

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#affairs #been #court #crowns #designs