Bob Dole Quotes

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

The vice presidency is a monkey cage.

When I go in, I find that it is not a lab but an office. There are a pile of letters to answer, phone numbers to call up, people waiting to have an interview, routine work that must be done.

I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.

Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of government.

The President of the United States is not the Sovereign of the United States. There is a very near analogy between the position of the President of the United States and that of the Prime Minister of England, and both are paid at much the same rate — the income of a second-class professional man. The Sovereign of the United States is the people;

A Vice President’s only significance consists in the fact that he may cease to be Vice President.

The vice presidency is not an office in which a man who is still vigorous and not past middle life has much chance of doing anything. As you know, I am of an active nature.

The vice-presidency ought to be abolished. The man who occupies it may at any moment be everything; but meanwhile he is practically nothing. I do not think that the President wants me to take part in affairs or give him advice.

It seems that the reins of government are held with too feeble a hand..

I think I'm ready to lead. I'm ready first to be a supportive vice president so that the presidency of Hillary Clinton is a fantastic one. But if something were to put that in my path, as much as any human being would be ready, I'd be ready. And you gotta approach it with humility.

I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in the mail and chatted about it.

I really just like to be at a desk.

There's so much paperwork that goes with changing a name.

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

I will never work in a cubicle.

Like, the idea that I had to spend the rest of my life behind a desk and not be able to express myself the way I wanted to express myself. To me, that is torture. I mean if people out there that do love that then more love to them, but it just wasn't for me.

I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.

My first job out of college was at PBS as an administrative assistant. I thought I would be on the production side of things.

I felt that working at an office from the early morning was impossible for me. Anyway, I wanted to be free from that lifestyle as soon as possible. I wanted to take it easy.

I didn't want a desk job; I knew I'd get bored.

I don't really do that much office work. I just go to the office, and I'm like Steve Carell in 'The Office.' You know, like, I just go around and like - I don't know what I do in the office. I look at paperwork and act like I'm understanding what's going on there, and I shake my head and put my hand on my chin and like, 'Hmm.'

I was a pretty good academic proofreader, I just wasn't good at keeping up with the paperwork.