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«The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.»
Author: Deng Xiaoping
(Politician)
| About:
America and Americans,
Politics,
Presidency
| Keywords:
bragged, bragging, brags, election, leave office, midterm, political system, political systems, something else, the President
«A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train»
«And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.»
«CONSUL, n. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure and office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American politics, consul, leave office
«LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
blacken, blackened, blackens, crowned, Crown Royal, drugging, hair color, hair cut, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, laureate, Laurel, laurels, leave office, officer, Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, royal court, Samson, Southey, sovereign, The Knack
«For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD: / And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.»
«Poor Darrell [Hammond]. What's he going to do when I leave office?»
«I will relinquish my office -- doing so with a heart filled with gratitude; gratitude to the American people for the chance to serve and to leave our country with more opportunity, stronger bonds of community and a more positive impact in the larger world, at the dawn of a new century and a whole new aspect of human affairs.»
«It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Judgement,
Liberty,
Truth
| Keywords:
conclusions, counsels, faculty, Faculty of, leave office, observations, Office of, represent, thereupon
«I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| Keywords:
America First, completed, leave office, noon, opposed, presidency, resign, term of office, the presidency
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