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I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. -- Linus Torvalds
You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative. -- Sam Altman
When we saw a destitute-looking man trying to sell worn flip-flops, I vowed never to complain about a job again. When I considered the steady paycheck and quality of life it provided, my past gripes - primarily boring meetings, back-biting office politics and pantyhose - were just whining. -- Kristine K. Stevens
I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in. -- Denise Mina
I was considering running for political office. -- Michael Newdow
I'm not going to run for political office. -- Phil Robertson
Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content. -- Mason Cooley
I have not the smarts or patience for political office. -- Henry Rollins
Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office. -- David K. Shipler
No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period. -- Katherine Harris
No man should have a political office because he wants a job. -- Franklin Knight Lane
I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you. -- David Petraeus
Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around. -- Gordon Gee
I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office. -- Jake Shimabukuro
Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading. -- Bill Kurtis
I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected. -- Luis Fortuno
I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office. -- Werner Herzog
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. -- Ulysses S. Grant
I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs. -- Isabel dos Santos
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. -- Calvin Coolidge
I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics. -- Condoleezza Rice
Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions! -- David Pratt
The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career. -- Donald E. Graham
The most important political office is that of the private citizen. -- Louis D. Brandeis
I leave the politics at the office when I go out. -- Rush Limbaugh
I leave the politics at the office when I go out. -- Rush Limbaugh
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office. -- John F. Kennedy
We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office. -- Hillary Clinton
The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever. -- Nancy Pelosi
We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands. -- David Gergen
My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time. -- Graham Moore
I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics. -- David Remnick
There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office. -- Barack Obama
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics. -- Bruce Willis
The person who says "I'm not political" is in great danger. Only the fittest will survive, and the fittest will be the ones who understand their office's politics -- Jean Hollands
The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake. -- John McCain

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