Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
Donald Rumsfeld

Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.
Henry Laurens

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.
George Stephanopoulos

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
William Godwin

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
Czeslaw Milosz

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
Hugo Chavez

I cannot resign myself to thi decline of Europe, and of France.
Jacques Delors

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
Jorge Luis Borges

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
Kazuo Ishiguro

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
David Bowie

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.
Lucien Bouchard

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.
Richard M. Nixon

I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them.
Mike McCready

I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
Eduard Shevardnadze

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
Fred A. Allen

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
Moshe Dayan

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.
Phil Angelides

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.
Arthur Rock

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel

No, I did not offer to resign for a second.
Michael Isikoff