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An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.

Nearly every boss has said it. And just about every employee has heard it. Yet it's one of the most meaningless lines ever spoken in the office: 'My door is always open.'

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.

You shut the door, you tell the boss exactly what you think. But when the door opens, the job of the vice president is to stand right next to the president and implement the policy that he's decided. And I'm prepared to do that.

I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.