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«Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.»
Author: David Broder
| About:
Presidency
| Keywords:
campaigning, campaign of, office, organizing, presidency, The Office, the presidency, trusted, two-year
«It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.»
«A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
elective, established, forgets, in public, office, politician, precarious, public office, tenure
«A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans,
Work
| Keywords:
Anything Else, bores, everyday, go down, In America, likes, office, rich man, The Office, tremendous
«He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
adulteries, adultery, inch, office, smaller, tiny
«I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Constitution,
Nations,
Presidency
| Keywords:
allegiance, bill, Bill of Rights, constitution, directed, flag, oath, Oath of, office, pledge, pledged, pledges, Pledge of Allegiance, The Bill, The Nation, The Pledge of Allegiance, the President
«It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
common sense, decencies, decency, favor, honesty, inaccurate, ineligible, office, public office, strongly
«A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
anywhere, compromised, compromises, compromising, dishonourable, humiliations, indistinguishable, near, office, politician, professional, professionally, streetwalker, submit, submitting, The Professionals
«Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.»
«A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him»
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