A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office. – Dilip Shanghvi
Ramesh Ponnuru and others say Obama is a conventional liberal. But conventional liberals don’t come out for the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Conventional liberals don’t return the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. Conventional liberals don’t block oil drilling in America while subsidizing oil drilling in Brazil. – Dinesh D’Souza
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn’t mean you’re mad at your mailman. – P. J. O’Rourke
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. – Deng Xiaoping
Politicians, in many cases – their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When you’re out of office, I guess you’re freed from those checks and balances. – Mark Leibovich
The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless. – Mark McKinnon
I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office. – David Cone
No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not. – Nigel Lawson
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office. – Denzel Washington
Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us. – George Takei
Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that’s another discussion entirely. – Dirk Benedict
When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office – even if I can’t stay for the movie. – Gayle King
I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it’s an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side. – Eoin Colfer
The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence. – Pankaj Mishra
During the late ’50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist. – Gore Vidal
I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It’s the sort of place described as ‘book-lined’, but it’s recently tipped over into ‘fire-hazard’ territory. – Elizabeth McCracken
I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado. – Mary Cheney
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had conversations with politicians who’ve done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn’t a ‘right.’ It’s a kind of loan. – Gail Collins
This idea that once you get into politics… you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error – and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office. – Matt Gonzalez
I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States. – Martin Sheen
Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we’d be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan. – D. A. Pennebaker
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. – David Hume
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it’s a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation. – Charles Ruff