If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.
Depose him,’ said Will Scott, astonished. ‘The Grand Master’s holy office terminates with his life. ’ ‘And can nobody think of an answer to that?’ said Will Scott.
I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.
I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.
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.
I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.
Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.
Now I have to have the biggest P. O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.
We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.
It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything. " The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
One of my first directives, after taking office, will be asking the Joint Chiefs of Staff and all relevant federal departments to conduct a thorough review of United States cyber defenses and identify all vulnerabilities - and we have to do that immediately - including to our power grid, our communications system, and all vital infrastructure.
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions.
You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in.
Hillary Clinton is a very dishonest person, probably the most dishonest person ever to run for the office of president.
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.
I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.
The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.
I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.