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“I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour”

Thinking Has Beens Ideas Next Successful Periods Office Fundamentals Green Democratic Careful Inequality Reform Labour Agendas New Ideas Extending Tackling

Author:Peter Hain

“It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.”

Should Running School Girl Talking Flower Periods Calling Conversation Office Picks Distance Dinner Sentences Sunday Sunday School Excursions

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.”

“In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.”

Way Long Together Left President Numbers Issues Plans Economic Periods Office Clinton Debt Balanced Deficit Surplus Long Periods Of Time President Clinton

Author:Chris Van Hollen

“No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.”

Political Periods Activity Office Partisans

Author:Katherine Harris

“Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital; it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge; the permanent officials.”

“Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]”

People Kind Opportunity Periods Office British Decades Shattered Blair Missed Opportunity

Author:Menzies Campbell

“My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget.”

People Years Stills Ideas Reason Might Political Certain Politics Term Forget Alive Return Periods Office Mass Regard Independence Governors Fixing Public Good Term Limits

Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“The Oval Office is a place where there's been, obviously, a lot of amazing experiences over a seven-and-a-half year period. My presidency is one where I've had to make some very tough decisions. I guess some presidencies are kind of - were real smooth, there were no real big issues. Well, that's not the way mine is.”

Way Years Wells Kind Real Bigs Decision Half Issues Mines Periods Office Tough Seven Smooth Presidency Oval Tough Decisions Amazing Experiences

Author:George W. Bush

“Determine when you are most productive when working away from the office, and maximize those periods.”

Periods Office Determine Productive

Author:Chuck Martin