After the meeting, I approached the group leader, Mrs. Johnson, ready to launch into my standard I-need-to-quit speech.
I also wondered if other politicians, on either side of the Atlantic, suffered from an inability to quit making stump speeches.
Understated and hugely poignant, its 14 episodes trace the decline of the British Raj from Gandhi's inflammatory Quit India speech of 1942 to partition and the riots that followed.
Although "Do or Die" features "daft lyrics", its name was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's Quit India speech which called for Indians to "Do or Die" to end British Imperial rule in the country.
Although Rhys has called the track a "dumb pop song" with "really daft" lyrics, he has also claimed that the title was inspired by the Quit India speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942 at the Gowalia Tank in Bombay in which Gandhi called for his countrymen to "Do or Die" and use non-violent resistance to end British Imperial rule in India.
In September, members of his National Hispanic Advisory Council quit after he delivered a speech on immigration that made it clear he was not softening his stance on mass deportations.
In Jan . 1993 Hasselbach quit the Movement in a televised speech.
Don't wait to be bumped off – quit the cabinet and use your resignation speech to make a pointed attack on the prime minister.
Sir Geoffrey Howe, resentful since being ousted as foreign secretary, seized his moment to quit the cabinet, deliver a devastating resignation speech and invite challengers for the leadership.
Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person".
Mr. Rankowitz said his decision to quit "had nothing to do" with the Clinton speech and was not demanded by Philip J. Purcell, the firm's chairman and chief executive.
