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"There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived."
"Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office."
"To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order."
"It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion"
"In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you."
"While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage."
"This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions."
"We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people."
"I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you."
"The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west."
"He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor."
"[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office."
"Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape."
"Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey."
"The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time."
"A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself."
"It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny."
"That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body."
"Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution."
"The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders."
