One of the things the government can’t do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. – Lee Iacocca
If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill – no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion. – Lydia Millet
I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until ‘The End.’ – Lee Child
We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch. – John Mahoney
I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before ‘The Office,’ I mainly got cast as little toe-rags. – Martin Freeman
I’m a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being a writer is not dissimilar to being long-term unemployed. And everyone knows that is not good for you. – Mark Haddon
On 30 June 2010, the FSB broke into my office again. They unplugged the Internet, opened the window and left the phone off the hook, placing it next to my laptop. The message was clear: we are still here. – Luke Harding
After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion. – Ken Starr
Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list. – Marilyn vos Savant
They were two and a half decades in which Brazil had no capacity to invest in infrastructure. Just to give you an idea, in 1989, we had in Brazil about 50,000 project-engineering businesses. When I took office, there were just 8,000. Universities were no longer turning out engineers. – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
You know, I was a community activist, so I’m used to standing out in front of an elected official’s office and protesting. – Karen Bass
I have to be honest: I don’t get many, if any – I don’t know that I’ve ever received a phone call in my office from somebody that says they’ve been discriminated against based on their sexual orientation. – Kevin Cramer
‘Ice Age’ felt like stage acting. You’d write a sequence, and sometimes you’d submit pages, but other times, I would actually perform it for the directors and producer in my office. – Jason Fuchs
There’s no question I’m going to do everything within the normal political bounds to make sure we don’t nominate Donald Trump. I think he would be terribly unfit for office. – Mitt Romney
I’m a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it’s difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office. – Jonathan Powell
In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of ‘The Office,’ called ‘Diwali,’ which seemed like an organic way of using it. – Mindy Kaling
I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn’t have had any friends in any environment other than performing. – Jodie Whittaker
I absolutely love ’30 Rock’ and ‘The Office,’ but I don’t know how many 13-year-olds are watching that stuff. – Justine Bateman
I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office. – Karen Bass
When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information. – Ken Starr
Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur. – Jan Egeland
Whenever I grump when the alarm goes off, it’s immediately replaced by, ‘But I get to leave my office at 11 A.M. and be with my daughter all day.’ – Josh Elliott
‘The Office’ is not one of those things you move away from. I don’t want it to go away. – John Krasinski
Look what’s happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It’s a blood sport. But at some point I may feel the need to run for office again. – Joe Scarborough
First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council. – Julian Castro