11 Quotes That Will Make You Wonder: Did Kamala Harris Or Michael Scott From ‘The Office’ Say It?

Vice President Kamala Harris has been drawing some comparisons to Steve Carell’s character, Michael Scott, from “The Office,” so we decided to throw together some of their more notable quotes to see if you can identify who said what.

If you’re a huge fan of “The Office,” you are probably going to ace this test. Even if you’re just a casual fan, you’ll probably do well since he is an iconic character from an iconic show that is one of the most-watched programs ever. However, if you are vaguely familiar with the show and only know of Michael Scott’s character from online snippets or memes, you might have some trouble deciphering his quotes from Kamala’s. You will find the answers below the series of gifs later in the article. (Stream Daily Caller’s documentary ‘Cleaning Up Kamala’ HERE)

Kamala Harris or Michael Scott?

1. “Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it’s not like this compulsive need, like my need to be praised.”

Michael has to be friends with (almost) everyone, even if they are co-workers. He can’t help it: he sees no professional boundaries between colleagues. Kamala longs to be liked by everyone in media and her party. You can easily picture her watching primetime cable news with a bottle of rosé, craving validation from MSNBC hosts while catching a buzz.

2. “You have no idea how high I can fly.”

Since Kamala has an inferiority complex, I could see her dropping this hokey line on “The View” or in a tweet responding to Donald Trump. Michael would also say this to a higher-up at Dunder Mifflin if he was put on the spot or forced to increase productivity.

3. “It’s time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day.”

If he needed to get his workers inspired, Michael would stand up in a meeting and say this without an iota of self-awareness, thinking it was profound and novel. Kamala would do the same at a rally, expecting a huge round of applause.

4.  “Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”

Kamala is trying to be the candidate of unity, peace, normalcy, decency, good juju and coconut vibes, but she’s also attempting to seem strong enough to take on Trump and global leaders like Putin and Xi. She would answer “both” for sure and then again, so would Michael, who wants everyone to respect him all the time even though he’s an incompetent goofball.

5. “See the moment in time in which we exist in our present and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future.”

I could see Michael the romantic saying this as he looks back fondly on a past relationship or at an office New Year’s celebration. This also screams Kamala since she centers so much of her campaign on vague notions of what the future might look like under her administration without actually talking about policy specifics.

6. “We’ve got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously.”

Hmmm, I’m on the fence with this one. On the one hand, it sounds like Kamala is addressing some hot-button political issue that affects Gen Z kids, like abortion or gun violence. It also sounds like Michael is trying to force his co-workers to take something seriously when it’s not serious at all, like Dwight’s plans for the apocalypse.

7. “I am Beyoncé, always.”

Michael is the kind of guy who would listen to Beyoncé in his office, but then again, Kamala just invited the one and only pop singer to her rally in Houston. Also, both of them vastly overestimate their self-importance, so it seems fitting they’d compare themselves to Beyoncé.

8. “Perhaps a weakness, some would say, but I actually think it’s a strength.”

Both Kamala and Michael have fragile egos. They never admit when they are wrong because they are always right, no matter what. Normal people have flaws and weaknesses, but Kamala and Michael only have virtues and strengths.

9. “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.”

Can’t you picture Kamala admitting this on a friendly podcast episode and then following up with a signature cackle? In July and August, her campaign tried to lean into her silly and frivolous moments and create all those viral coconut memes. They would spin this statement into a Gen Z meme: Kamala just being real, Kamala just being honest, Kamala just being relatable. However, Michael would also say this without a trace of irony.

10. “Sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open, and sometimes they won’t— and then you need to kick that f***ing door down.”

This is Michael trying to justify why he sabotaged one of his own employees and threw them under the bus when a corporate big wig visited their regional office in Scranton. This is also Kamala hyping up her middle-class background and leaning into the feminist corporate “girlboss” side.

11. “So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.”

Michael would treat this statement like some highly original analysis, but then Dwight would butt in with an arcane fact about Russian history from the 13th century. Kamala also probably lacks any deeper understanding of the relations between Russia and Ukraine and she sometimes enjoys talking to people like they’re elementary school students. So this one makes sense for her, too.

ANSWER KEY

1. Michael 

2. Michael 

3. Kamala

4. Michael 

5. Kamala

6. Kamala 

7. Michael 

8. Kamala 

9. Michael

10. Kamala

11. Kamala