My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.
I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.
A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Is this safe for work, and is this safe for work? – CIA security officer, examining employee's personal safe with racy calendar attached
At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.
I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.
Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.
[repeated line] Nina: Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. *JUST* a moment.
Officer Michaels: Yeah McLovin, how is it going with the ladies? Fogell: It's not the "going" I'm worried about... but the "coming".
Officer Slater: [Arresting Evan and Seth] Pretend he's your little sister, your little sister, with the picha baga daga dicta!
[having encountered a mother and baby, frozen to death in the water] Fifth Officer Lowe: We waited too long.
California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California.
I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.
Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.
When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar.
Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.
I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
