“I believe that Hillary Clinton is one of the best prepared people in our history to enter the Oval Office, with her vision, her knowledge, her experience, her strategic thinking, her connection to the American people.” PeopleThinkingBelieveI BelieveVisionOfficeConnectionsPreparedClintonStrategicOvalStrategic Thinking Author:Nancy Pelosi
“I always judge people who spend a lot of time in public office say they care about things, if the day after they leave, they no longer talk about them, then I don't think they cared much about them.” PeopleIfsThinkingCareJudgingOfficePublic Office Author:Joe Biden
“Even the coverage over the last two weeks since he did win the election, it's been a combination of a few people wanting to cover [Donald's Trump] next 100 days. You know, what he wants to do in office. He's been very clear about 100 day plan is. Your viewers can go pull it off on our Web site right now as 100 day plan for them to see.” PeopleKnowsWantTwoLastsNextWinningClearPlansWeekTrumpRight NowOfficeElectionCombinationSiteViewersTwo WeeksCoverage Author:Kellyanne Conway
“The more they do to expose themselves as who they are - but remember, now, most liberals hide who they are, particularly liberal Democrat officeholders and people running for office. They lie about their agenda. They lie about what they believe. They lie and mask who they are.” PeopleBelieveRunningRememberLyingOfficeDemocratMaskAgendasRunning For Office Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You know, there were all kinds of calls when George W. Bush left office in 2009 for the left to investigate him. [Barack] Obama and Eric Holder were under pressure to investigate and prosecute Bush. I bet most people don't remember this, but it wasn't until June 30th, 2011, that Eric Holder announced that of the more than 100 cases the Justice Department had reviewed, that there would be no charges brought in any of them.” PeopleKnowsKindWould BeRememberLeftJusticeCasesOfficePressureAll KindsBarackDepartmentJuneEricUnder Pressure Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.” PeopleThinkingNeedsNumbersRolesOfficeBoxesLimbsBox Office Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“Donald Trump is in office. It's not just another Republican candidate - Donald Trump. And people were so disaffected with the liberal message that they were willing to vote for him.” PeopleWillingTrumpRepublicanOfficeMessagesVoteCandidates Author:Steve Inskeep
“If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on in amazement as the biggest part of the problem decided it wasn't going to make any effort to help with the solution.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsLooksLongHelpingProblemDecisionEffortWeekOfficePerceptionSolutionsDecidedInternationalIraqAround The WorldAdministrationDataNosesTreatiesAmazementTenureKyotoPolling Author:Bill McKibben
“I would like to see more successful business people run for office.” PeopleRunningSuccessfulOfficeSuccessful Business Author:Hillary Clinton
“I didn't understand how much senators and members of the House are not able to represent the people because they're too busy fundraising to maintain their seat in office. I hope we as a country start looking at how we can change that.” PeopleCountryAbleHouseMembersOfficeBusySeatsSenatorsToo BusyFundraising Author:Jessica Chastain
“I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth Avenue had small bookstores, many of which were run by Spanish immigrants who'd fled after [Francisco] Franco's victory. I spent time in them, and also in the offices of Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Worker's Voice) with anarchists. I picked up a lot of material and talked to people, and it became a major influence.” PeopleRunningVoiceCitiesInfluenceNew YorkMaterialsVictoryOfficeMajorsAreasUnionsWorkersImmigrantsNew York CitySquaresFourthAvenuesAnarchistBookstoresFrancoFrancisco Franco Author:Noam Chomsky
“I love to have the people watching [The Office ] just because it's fun to have people watching, but our fans are so dedicated, so smart and so cool for the most part. We don't have these fans that overwhelm you if they see you on the street. They're like, 'Love the show', or 'What an idiot. You should have said something to her last week.' I'm like, 'I know.'” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldSaidShowsLastsFunWeekFansStreetsOfficeSmartShould HaveIdiotDedicatedLike Love Author:John Krasinski
“My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation. Ideally not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.” PeopleTwoWould BeThreeTermMy OwnAcceptingAdviceOfficeElectionDemocraticRotation Author:Kofi Annan
“The changes I envisage and that I have promised to address within my first 90 days in office are; Dismantling the cabals of tribalism that are choking our country and resulting in runaway corruption and frustration for the people of Kenya.” PeopleFirstsCountryOfficeCorruptionOur CountryAddressesFrustrationChokeKenyaTribalismRunawayCabal Author:Raila Odinga
“There's a lot going on that is hurting this country. And there's a lot of businesses and a lot of people that put President-elect [Donald] Trump in office because they are counting on him to get our relationships with China straightened out.” PeopleCountryPresidentHurtTrumpOfficeChinaOur RelationshipCounting Author:Reince Priebus
“One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents.” PeoplePersonsCharacterJobsCoursesHouseWhiteSeeingTelevisionTvsOfficeCampaignsSymbolsBarackCriticizeWhite HouseRepresentativesPresidencyResponding Author:Barack Obama
“I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know from talking to people, for communities around the world, the election of an African American to the most powerful office on Earth meant things had changed, and not just in superficial ways. That in some irreversible way the world was different.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayBelieveDifferentEarthCommunityPowerfulTalkingChangedRegretOfficeElectionAround The WorldAfrican AmericanMost PowerfulSuperficialDon't RegretFervorIrreversible Author:Barack Obama
“We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves, if we go too far, if we sort of trample unreasonably on rights, we'll give birth to a political movement which will cost us our credibility, and will possibly cost us our offices, because people will vote for the other team, the other guys.” PeopleIfsGivingGovernmentPoliticalGuyRightsTeamMovementBirthCivilizationCostOfficeModelsVoteIdeologyAlternativesCredibilityClashOther GuysPolitical MovementsClash Of Civilizations Author:Edward Snowden
“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
“We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.” PeopleRunningOfficeGoing To Work Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I talk to people in the ACLU office in New York all the time. I'm able to participate in the debate and to campaign for reform. I'm just the first to come forward in the manner that I did and succeed.” PeopleFirstsAbleNew YorkSucceedOfficeCampaignsDebateReform Author:Edward Snowden
“We not only brought peace to many countries and people around the world, but we never dropped a bomb, we never launched a missile, and we never fired a bullet while I was in office. Yet we protected the interests of the American people in a peaceful, but strong way.” PeopleWorldWayCountryStrongInterestOfficePeacefulAround The WorldBombsProtectedBulletsMissiles Author:Jimmy Carter
“Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesn’t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.” PeopleImportantMatterFightingAttentionPlansOfficeAll ThingsTasksConstantPhonesCellsWorking ItCell PhoneImportant WorkNotifications Author:Kevin Drum
“I believe in a free and open press; people have to cover the presidency, respect the office and its current occupant. And we need it to be a two-way street.” PeopleWayNeedsBelieveTwoI BelieveStreetsOfficePressesCurrentsI Believe InPresidencyTwo WaysTwo Way Street Author:Kellyanne Conway
“When I see Twitter feeds, when I see words that are people are using to describe Donald Trump, it is incredibly disrespectful to the office.” PeopleTrumpOfficeDisrespectful Author:Kellyanne Conway
“It was never tough [ being the new guy]. It's just the warmest group of people [The Office stuff] you could ever hope to work with.” PeopleGuyStuffGroupsOfficeTough Author:Ed Helms
“Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of the six months you put the data on all the computer inputs all over the world and you got your business. You can make all your money, and then people can steal it, but by then it doesn't matter because you've made the money up front and you avoid wasting money in lawsuits. [My father] had all these kinds of ideas years ahead of others.” PeopleWorldYearsKindMadeIdeasEndsMatterTodayFatherFrontsMonthsOfficeSixComputerToolsProductionsStealingDataSix MonthsObsoleteInputPatentsLawsuitWasting Money Author:Paul Laffoley
“When I watch like The Office I'm fascinated because most of America works in an environment where they see the same eight people every day.” PeopleAmericaWatchesEnvironmentOfficeEightFascinated Author:Jay Mohr
“Germany and Turkey are two countries that need each other. As political leaders we will leave our offices one day, but our people will remain and have to get along with each other. So we shouldnÂ’t give them negative messages.” PeopleNeedsGivingTwoCountryPoliticalLeaderOne DayOfficeMessagesNegativeGermanyTurkeysPolitical LeadersTwo Countries Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“Hillary Clinton is probably one of the best prepared people to walk into the Oval Office certainly in a generation, with all the love and respect and admiration that I have for President Obama, and he's been a great president, going in he was nowhere nearly as prepared as Hillary Clinton.” PeoplePresidentWalksGenerationsOfficePreparedClintonAdmirationPresident ObamaLove And RespectOvalGreat Presidents Author:Nancy Pelosi
“If we don't throw Obama out of office, soon, and there's every reason to throw him out of office, preemptively; he deserves to be thrown out of office! Not only for his sake, but for the sake of our people in the United States.” PeopleIfsStatesReasonUnitedUnited StatesOfficeDeserveSakeThrown Author:Lyndon LaRouche
“I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's likely to be an erosion of just that standard, that different standard, consciousness, and I think it's likely we'll see what we haven't seen in the last eight years and even the last 12 or 16 of private enrichment in office and scandals where people have to resign and things like that, because just once the standards go, behavior tends to go.” PeopleThinkingYearsDifferentLastsConsciousnessHavensTrumpOfficeBehaviorStandardsEightNot SureDistinctionScandalPublic LifeErosionEnrichment Author:David Brooks
“I do have to say when we read certain words being used to describe President Trump - it's never been done. It wasn't done about President Obama. It wasn't done about either President Bush, President Clinton, because people have a certain respect for and recognition of the dignity for the office of the president. And so I am beseeching everybody to cool it down a little bit.” PeopleLittlesDoneUsedCertainBitsPresidentTrumpOfficeLittle BitDignityClintonRecognitionPresident ObamaPresident BushPresident Clinton Author:Kellyanne Conway
“In churches, we see that getting people to show up for a prayer meeting is a lot more difficult than a concert or service project or just about anything else. So we were thinking, we're stepping into some unknown territory here that could be as profitable, or it could be a box-office flop, but there was a rightness about it. And so this whole idea of the war room being like a spiritual warfare room, a place of prayer where you get alone with God and you're making your decisions and you're dealing with your issues first in prayer.” PeopleThinkingFirstsIdeasWarWholeShowsSpiritualDifficultChurchPrayerDecisionRoomsIssuesOfficeProjectsMeetingsBoxesConcertsTerritoryWarfareProfitableSpiritual WarfareBox OfficePrayer MeetingAlone With God Author:Stephen Kendrick
“If you create an artificial scarcity through public policy, artificial rent so to speak - setting up a new import quota or giving out a particular office that is very beneficial - people are going to invest money, time and resources in trying to secure that opportunity. If the value is created independently of the search for it, the search for it is wasted.” PeopleIfsGivingTryingValuesOpportunitySpeakPolicyParticularOfficeResourcesSettingSettingsSecureArtificialBeneficialScarcityPublic PolicyImportsQuota Author:James M. Buchanan
“Stalin was experimenting with telepathy in the 1930's. Winston Churchill had a paranormal office, trying to get people to travel out of their bodies and see behind enemy lines in the Second World War. And the Pentagon... The X-Files is based on a real department in the Pentagon, that's still there now. Pretty much every government, probably as far back in time as we can go, has one. And the police will quite often - and when I say often, I mean often - they will go to mediums if all else fails in the enquiry.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingMeanStillsWarRealBodyGovernmentLinesBehindsEnemyFailingOfficePoliceMediumsWar Of The WorldsParanormalDepartmentFilesSecond World War1930sPentagonBack In TimeTelepathyEnquiryX Files Author:Peter James
“Get out of the office. Roam the frontline. Be observant. Hold your people accountable for creating the new narrative, a new story, in which your customers are the most important "characters". Because, you know, they really are.” PeopleKnowsImportantCharacterStoriesOfficeCreatingCustomersNarrativeObservantFrontline Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“We have as the president of the United States one of the most radical leftists that's even ever run for office [Barack Obama]. Certainly the most radical, extreme leftist ever to be president. But if people are not told that, they're not going to believe it.” PeopleIfsBelieveStatesRunningPresidentUnitedUnited StatesOfficeExtremesRadicalBarackLeftists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The thing about drugs is that it [dealing] gives people an income to deal with, and it also gives people a compelling drama in their lives that they used to get from the office and the factory, and they're no longer there. What happens if you have everything in the hands of the state, particularly in the line of an authoritarian state, they just give people drugs to keep them doped up, to keep them passive.” PeopleIfsGivingStatesHandsHappensUsedLinesDealsDramaDrugOfficeIncomeFactoriesCompellingPassive Author:Irvine Welsh
“I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.” PeopleThinkingKnowsRunningLawInfluenceMembersOfficeConnectionsLegislature Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“What Republicans want to do is to put doctors and patients and patients' families back in charge of people's health care rather than having pencil pushers of the government or in some insurance office doing that job.” PeopleWantGovernmentCareJobsRepublicanOfficeDoctorsPatientHealth CarePencilsDoctors And Patients Author:Jim Sensenbrenner
“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 people are taking my book seriously and organizing, getting into office, caring about the constitution, and not waiting for someone else to lead them, I think, God bless them. All of us should be doing that. The left should be doing that.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldBookLeftWaitingOfficeConstitutionCaringBlessGod Bless Author:Naomi Wolf
“People thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.” PeopleLightOfficeRacism Author:Lil Rel Howery
“If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble.” PeopleIfsThinkingProcessUnderstandingLevelsResponsibilityTroubleOfficeIncrediblesObligationPresidentialGood PeopleReverence Author:Barack Obama
“As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged.” PeopleBelieveProcessSidesOfficePresidentialEngaged Author:Barack Obama
“[When the Gospel seems to be interpreted in different ways] is the obvious challenge, perhaps even danger, here. By its very nature as a custodial office, the papacy can't be a Rorschach test, into which people read whatever they like - whatever they fear or hope for.” PeopleWayDifferentSeemsChallengesDangerOfficeTestsObviousDifferent WaysRorschachRorschach Test Author:George Weigel
“We were just floored by the kindness of the people here. The minister of the Unitarian Church in Honolulu invited my family over to his office the day we arrived and told us to make it our headquarters while we looked for a permanent residence. When we couldn't find a place for about a week, he let us live in the church; that's ironic, isn't it? But it points up the vastly different intellectual atmosphere that prevails here in Hawaii.” PeopleDifferentChurchKindnessWeekOfficeIntellectualMy FamilyAtmospherePermanentMinistersIronicInvitedHawaiiResidenceHeadquartersUnitarianHonoluluUnitarian Church Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“We know there's a clear gap in fairness. There just is in equity. In a lot of ways, economically, racially, blah, blah, blah. It just is. Not blaming anybody, it just is. So then you say, that can be interpreted and misinterpreted and used by a lot of different people. Some people run for office; some people try to gain influence. I generally believe all that's true. It's just, which one is the person who is accurately turning that dial and which one is using it as bullshit and lies? So, this is a tricky area to step into.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingBelievePersonsDifferentRunningUsedLyingStepsClearInfluenceOfficeGainsAreasBlameGapsFairnessBullshitEquityDifferent PeoplesTrickyBlahMisinterpreted Author:Michael Keaton
“I've been working in Hollywood for a long time now in many different aspects in front of the camera, behind the camera, and I've worked with top executives, presidents of networks. I've worked all around. I see energy and what's around these studios and a lot of these offices. You don't get the high positions in these companies if you don't take advantage of other people in some way. I've seen that around. I've seen that around the studios, whether it's producers or whoever. Egos are there. Greed.” PeopleIfsWayLongDifferentEnergyPresidentBehindsCompanyFrontsPositionEgoOfficeLong TimeAdvantageAspectHollywoodCamerasGreedStudiosProducersExecutives Author:James Van Praagh