Neoconservative Republican President George W. Bush took office determined to aggressively export American democratic values through conflict. The Iraq war, a misdirected response to 9/11, tacked trillions of dollars on to the deficit while further destabilising the Middle East.
From the moments Obama took office, he has downplayed the threats from radical Islamists.
In 2008, we began an initiative to outsource projects from our Israeli office to three companies in the Palestinian Territories.
Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.
Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.
My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.
In my experience, American office Christmas parties mean that everyone gets a thimbleful of lukewarm Champagne in a plastic cup.
I've always been worried about Justin Trudeau's attitude towards trade. We saw during the softwood lumber negotiations that he failed to get an extension while President Obama was still in office.
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.
I don't live in D.C. I keep an air mattress in my office.
Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slinging accusations against successful financial executives. Preening press conferences and fawning media coverage are virtually guaranteed, whether or not the charges have substance.
Opening a complaint for investigation in no way implies that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has made a determination about the merits of the complaint.
On Sundays, I'm up at five and in the office by six. After the show, around midday, I flip the switch, and it's all family. Our kids play sports, so we're running around.
I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.
My father worked in a grocery store. When the grocery chain went into administration, he eventually got a job in the naval dockyard in an office preparing the charts for the boats and the submarines before they headed out.
We'd be in his office playing with trucks as a six-year-old while he's negotiating deals with presidents of major companies.
I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.
The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he came in. In real terms - in nominal terms with vanilla on top - he cut the budget year over year.
