“I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.” KnowsFactsCareFightingOfficeAdultsToughLifetimeKnow MeI CareTenure Author:Bev Perdue
“Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.” WritingFirstsTodayWhitePerfectRoomsOfficeToughPaidSafetyMeetingsMissionsEach DayAviationCompetentAdmissionBlackboard Author:Gene Kranz
“The tough decisions that a president has to make in the Oval Office are in no way related to the capability of a person to do well on television. On the other hand, the capability of a person to project favorably on television enhances that person's odds of being elected so he can serve in the Oval Office. So you can't ignore the talents, one, to be very effective on television, and on the other hand, to be very effective as an operating president.” WayWellsPersonsHandsPresidentDecisionTalentTelevisionOfficeProjectsToughRelatedCapabilityOddsOvalTough Decisions Author:Gerald R. Ford
“I saw so many kids 22, 19, with holes the size of a dime and they're dead. It's a gunshot and of course those kids thought they were as tough as nails, they never expected to be dead but they're gone. It's kinda nice to walk out of the County Coroner's Office with a couple of sayings, you know? "You're not so tough being dead on a morgue table."” KnowsKidsCoursesWalksGoneSawsNiceCoupleOfficeToughTablesSizeExpectedHolesNailsCountyDimesGunshotsMorgues Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“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.” WayYearsWellsKindRealBigsDecisionHalfIssuesMinesPeriodsOfficeToughSevenSmoothPresidencyOvalTough DecisionsAmazing Experiences Author:George W. Bush
“It's tough to make funny films. And the truth is, with this process, especially if you write your own movie, then you're giving three years of your life to it. And so, I just have to be sure that when I embark on it that I'm happy to think that in three years' time I'm going to be sitting in a room on the tenth floor of an odd office building at Ginsberg Libby talking about it. So I'm keen not to jump into it too quickly and just make sure it's something that I really want.” IfsThinkingWantGivingWritingYearsFilmThreeProcessRoomsTalkingBuildingTruth IsOfficeSittingToughOddThree YearsGinsbergWrite Your OwnOffice Buildings Author:Dan Mazer
“Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.” PeopleShouldCountryWholeRunningAsksSidesEconomyEconomicNew YorkOfficeToughRaisesCampaignsOur CountryCandidatesContributionChickensLots Of MoneySiteBoth SidesAisleFundraisingRunning For OfficeHanding OverTough QuestionsCampaign Contributions Author:Hillary Clinton
“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
“At a meeting in her office in the late summer of 2002, months before the war in Iraq, prisoner abuse at Guantanamo is discussed. Condoleezza Rice brings in Donald Rumsfeld for a meeting, and they all agree they have to do something. Nothing gets done. Did everybody understand we were going to be as tough as we could be people we thought were Al Qaeda? Is there a better way to get information, get their trust, establish rapport, try to change their views? Nobody wants to think about that. It's just, let's beat them up. And that attitude was widespread throughout the Administration.” PeopleThinkingTryingWarDoneAttitudeOfficeSummerToughAbuseAgreeMeetingsPrisonerRiceAl QaedaRapport Author:Seymour Hersh
“The Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan seems very much in line with his rhetoric during the campaign that he intended to be tough on China. And don't forget, we have seen a lot of presidential candidates, memorably, Bill Clinton, who used to criticize George Herbert Walker Bush for coddling dictators and then take the much softer line with China once he's in office.” PresidentForgetOfficeToughClintonPresidentialCriticizeDictatorRhetoricPresidential Candidate Author:Karen Tumulty
“Donald Trump can't even handle the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. He loses his cool at the slightest provocation. When he has gotten a tough question from a reporter, when he is challenged in a debate. When he sees a protester at a rally. Imagine, if you dare imagine, imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. And in the end, it comes down to what Donald Trump doesn't get, America is great because America is good.” MenRealImagineOfficeToughCrisisDareDebatePresidentialRoughNuclear WeaponsTweetPresidential Campaign Author:Hillary Clinton
“You can point to a lot of women showrunners that have had long and successful careers. In terms of the kinds of movies that women can get made, as long as the business operates under this model of the first-weekend [box office] focus, with huge movies aimed at super-young audiences, it will be really tough for women to do something that really changes the landscape. Because honestly, until they figure out how to get grown women into the theaters on the first weekend, it won't change.” KindLongTermAudienceSuccessfulFocusOfficeToughHonestlyWeekendSuccessful Career Author:Callie Khouri
“You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.” KnowsGivingMeanDecisionAdviceEasierOfficeToughComing Out Author:Tony Blair
“I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.” ThinkingFactsHateNextDecisionGenerationsHeardPoliticianRepublicanOfficeToughElectionDemocratVotersFearfulComplaintsNext GenerationTough DecisionsMaking Tough Decisions Author:Scott Walker
“That is nice, Mr. Morgan. Because in response to your tough-guy speech, I, in turn, would’ve had to give you my tough-girl speech, about where, exactly, federal prosecutors who come to my office looking for assistance can stick their obstruction of justice threats” GivingGuyTurnsGirlJusticeNiceSpeechOfficeToughThreatSticksResponseAssistanceProsecutorObstructionTough GuyTough Girl Book:Love Irresistibly Source: Love Irresistibly