Learn English – this idiom: “I’m going to start taking names and…”

Looks like it might originate from a 1970 novel by Chuck Stone called King Strut:

People ain't buying that shit no more. We're checking Whitey out, telling him his system is corrupt, it stinks. Black people are ready to kick ass and take names .

Edit: Sorry. I spoke too soon. Here's a citation from five years earlier from The Green Berets by Robin Moore (1965):

He's out kicking ass and taking names everywhere. He found Ling for me and that stud is a tiger. Harvey eyed the bulge in my pack. 'Now, you piker, how about a little of that celebration?'

It appears ass kicking itself dates back to the early '40s and the phrase having as much chance as a one-legged man in a mule/butt/ass-kicking contest. The similar expression kick in the pants dates to the late 1800s.

Edit 4/15/11:

I just antedated the 1965 reference by 11 years. This is from John Oliver Killens' 1954 novel Youngblood:

Man ain't you heard? After Joe Louis whupped that cracker, some crackers came down here wanted to turn Harlem Avenue out. Boy, some young Negroes started kicking asses and taking names. Some Negroes tried to get on the bus to Pleasant Grove and the bus driver wouldn't let them on, and they turned the damn bus over and upside down.

My boss would probably just laugh, and say, "Have another drink."

The "kiss his ring" portion of Huntsman's statement, of course, evokes kissing the Pope's ring as a sign of respect.

The "kiss any other part of his anatomy" is just Huntsman's polite way of saying that he's not going to brownnose.

As Muad'Dib notes, your boss's reaction will really depend 1) on your boss, and 2) the context in which you make such a statement.

Edit: This kind of frankness and bluntness is rare in a politician, and is but one of the characteristics that makes Huntsman an outsider among potential Republican presidential candidates. In other public arenas (entertainment or business, for example), these sorts of statements are more common, but not an everyday occurrence, especially among those who are conscious of managing their image.