“The bottom line is that every single member of Congress has to get voted into office every two or six years. That means they need to look really good in their home district and state. That means good local press. That means people in their district thinking, "Man, I really don't like Congress, but I like Senator Bob."” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsYearsLooksMeanTwoStatesHomeLinesMembersOfficeSixPressesBottomCongressLocalsBobSenatorsBottom LineMean PeopleThinking Man Author:Ezra G. Levin
“Most Americans are very focused on what their tax returns will look like while President Trump is in office, not what his look like.” LooksPresidentReturnTrumpTaxesOfficeFocusedTax Returns Author:Kellyanne Conway
“If you look at the history of Obama, with the crimes he's committed, in office, publicly, and gotten by with that, you understand two things: First of all, that he's a criminal, really, by any standard of decency, and he's a great liar.” IfsFirstsLooksTwoCrimeOfficeStandardsCommittedCriminalsTwo ThingsLiarsDecencyGreat Liar Author:Lyndon LaRouche
“Iran would do well to look at the calendar and realize there's a new president in the Oval Office. And Iran would do well not to test the resolve of this new president [Donald Trump].” WellsLooksPresidentRealizingTrumpOfficeTestsIranResolveCalendarsOval Author:Mike Pence
“Coolidge cut the budget, and even better, cut it during peace and prosperity. He left a federal budget lower than the one that greeted him when he arrived in office. He managed to freeze or cut the budget over more than five years in office. If you look at charts of presidents - Nixon, Ike, and Reagan - you see them failing on this score.” IfsYearsLooksLeftPresidentFiveCuttingFailingOfficeProsperityBudgetsFive YearsScoreFreezePresident Nixon Author:Amity Shlaes
“If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned on. In the 20th century, presidents between Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter accomplished 73 percent of the things that they said they would do as candidates. Part of that is because once they get into office, their credibility, their ability to do anything depends on doing the things that they said they would.” IfsLooksSaidCoursesPresidentAbilityCenturyDependsOfficePercentCandidatesAccomplishedThey SaidPresidency20th CenturyCredibilityJimmyCarterWilson Author:Evan Osnos
“I definitely feel like it took me a while to learn the baseline things you have to do if you want people to hear you. That's why I've had the same haircut for the entire time that I've been on television and that's why I wear literally the same jacket every day. I keep all the clothes I wear on TV in my office on a little hanging rack. My girlfriend calls it all the colors of the German rainbow. Grays, blacks, a slightly greenish gray for the days that I'm feeling particularly festive. I'm not trying to accomplish anything in the way I look other than to be boring enough for people to hear me.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsTryingLooksLittlesEnoughFeelingsTelevisionColorTvsOfficeClothesBoringAccomplishGirlfriendGrayRainbowJacketsMy GirlfriendHaircutsRacksFestive Author:Rachel Maddow
“If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt who waited, well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected.” IfsYearsWellsLooksThreeHappenedMiddleWorstOfficeHappeningsCrisisFinancialThree YearsFranklinGreat DepressionFinancial CrisisFranklin Delano Roosevelt Author:Barack Obama
“I think the worst professional advice I've received... I feel I've been lucky in that I've gotten a lot of wonderful guidance, but I remember - and I would never do this to someone - I remember going into a manager's office, the manager I had in New York, and this was way back when. And she said to me, immediately, "You should never wear striped T-shirts. You look much bigger than you are."” ThinkingWayFeelsShouldLooksSaidRememberWonderfulWorstAdviceNew YorkLuckyOfficeBiggerManagersGuidanceShirtsT ShirtBack WhenWay Back When Author:June Diane Raphael
“Hey, folks, look at all the damage that Bill Clinton has done to feminism. First, oral sex is not sex now. You got a Lewinsky, it isn't sex. And sexual harassment, you know what it used to be? All you had to have for sexual harassment was for a superior in your office to use his power to have his way with you, no matter whether you wanted it or not. Now that's out the window. Because we can't, of course, have Bill Clinton said to have engaged in sexual harassment. No way. Not gonna happen.” KnowsWayFirstsLooksSaidMatterDoneUseHappensWantedUsedCoursesSexFeminismOfficeWindowBillsClintonFolksSuperiorsUsed To BeHeyEngagedDamageHarassment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.” PeopleWayLooksWorkOfficeTreatsSoftwareManualsManual Labor Author:James Levine
“And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'” LooksTwoWholeHandsRealityWeekMonthsOfficeSittingGoldenOscarsShelvesPromotionSurrealTwo WeeksBack To Reality Author:Javier Bardem
“NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost make it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside.” LooksIdeasFactsWalksBuildingOfficeNo IdeaParksFascinatingNasaGeneric Author:Moby
“I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.” PeopleKnowsWayGivingTryingLooksI CanHardFacesGivenLevelsOfficeRadioBoxesAppealsHere I AmBox Office Author:John C. Reilly
“If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare.” IfsYearsLooksGovernmentNumbersStudyOne ThingOfficeBlowSpendingHolesBudgetsComing OutHealthcareDeficitGovernment SpendingBudget Deficit Author:Christina Romer
“'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'” WantLooksAsksChurchHeardOfficeDoctorsDressesClown Author:Charles R. Swindoll