Oval Quotes - Page 4

• Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.

  Ron Fournier

  Country, Kings, Office

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• I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

  George W. Bush

  Smart, People, Office

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1262, Government Printing Office

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• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

  Rahm Emanuel

  Land, White, Office

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.foxnews.com. September 4, 2012.

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• This morning President Obama met with Britain's Prince William in the Oval Office. It was a meeting between a symbolic ruler with no real power and the future king of England.

  Conan O'Brien

  Morning, Kings, Real

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• Hillary Clinton was actually inducted into the Irish American Hall of Fame yesterday. Hillary said she's very proud of her Irish heritage or her Italian heritage or her Asian heritage. Whatever it takes to seal the deal with you guys. I've got to get into that Oval Office.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Italian, Yesterday, Office

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• The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

  Bob Barr

  Clouds, Government, Office

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• I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Believe, Eggs, Smooth

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• Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

  David K. Shipler

  Office, Fit, Caricatures

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• Presidential candidate Donald Trump had a meeting with Ted Cruz. He said he does not know why he agreed to fly to New York to meet Ted Cruz and then he promised to bring that kind of leadership to the Oval Office.

  Conan O'Brien

  New York, Office, Presidential

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• ... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.

  John Milton

  War, Angel, Order

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• Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.

  Peter Pook

  Balls, Rugby, Englishmen

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• Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office... You mean the one on the sofa?

  Craig Ferguson

  Mean, Office, President

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• Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.

  Sara Genn

  Eggs, Perfect, Challenges

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• I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Mean, Office

  "An Exclusive Interview With President Bush". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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• Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.

  Robert Draper

  Father, Office, Administration

  "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.

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• So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.

  Johannes Kepler

  Science, Differences, Mars

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• In effect, Hillary Clinton would be abolishing the lawmaking powers of Congress in order to write her own laws from the Oval Office. And you see what bad judgment she has. She has seriously bad judgment.

  Donald Trump

  Writing, Order, Law

  Source: time.com

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• I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Morning, Jobs, Office

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.'

  Leon Panetta

  Thinking, Office, Priorities

  "Transcript of interview with CIA director Panetta". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. May 3, 2011.

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• The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.

  Trevor Bailey

  Circles, Squares, Long

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• Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

  Alastair Campbell

  Views, Media, People

  "The Bill Clinton I knew" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2004.

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• Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation. Yes, it can be - and often is - abused, in business as in all arenas of endeavor. But it can also be used to do great good for great numbers. And as a career-building tool, the slow and steady (and subtle) amassing of power is the surest road to success.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Power, Numbers

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.43, Vintage

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• I was a carpenter in Northern Vermont and got this tax refund check that just about covered a one-way airfare to London. So this I saw as a sign from God. So I went over to see Ray [Hussett] for a couple of weeks and ended up staying 10 years. I got work as a stage carpenter at the Oval House in Kennington, South London.

  John Ratzenberger

  Couple, Years, House

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office.

  Mark Steyn

  Children, Infantry Division, Office

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