Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials?
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
I want to be high-profile with the average Angeleno. I want to be out there holding office hours on a curb in Boyle Heights.
You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in.
H.R. 5444 provides long-overdue structural reforms and service improvements to the IRS. The legislation codifies the IRS Office of Appeals to streamline the appeals process and to provide fair and impartial determinations for concerns raised by the taxpayer.
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.
I read 'Lean In' at a really important time as I was deciding to run for office.
I always do a little bit of improv. I did some of 'The Office,' a tiny bit in 'Extras,' a bit more in 'Derek.'
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.
I think President Obama is weak, bored with the office, and an incompetent leader.
President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.
As president of the National Assembly, I am fully able and willing to assume the office of the presidency on an interim basis to call for free and fair elections.
Since I became a senator in 2015, my office has been inundated by countless letters, emails, and calls from North Carolinians telling us how Obamacare has been a nightmare for them and their families.
