I have enormous respect for people who do run for office.
As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
'The Office' is clearly the funniest show on TV. But I can't live without watching 'Eureka.' It's my favorite show of all time, and I watch it constantly on my iPod.
Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
The creation of a consumer agency, structured similarly to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, levels the playing field. It gives consumers a powerful advocate at the federal level.
The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Financial Aid Office (FAO) administrators are scrambling to educate students on repaying loans, but a disparity in knowledge persists.
Perhaps resigning from her first term in office may hurt Mrs. Palin's attempts to run for higher office. Even I, a Palin supporter, now have qualms about her seeking higher office.
Throughout my first term in office, we have taken many steps to keep my commitment to make my work in Congress as transparent and accessible as possible.
It's not just that I'm a woman of color running for office. It's the way that I ran. It's the way that my identity formed my methods.
When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000.
There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.
There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.
I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
