Public office Quotes · Page 2

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

— Franklin Knight Lane

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

— Anonymous

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

— Sheila Jackson Lee

The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office.

— Jeb Bush

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.

— Wolfgang Schauble

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

— Charles Sumner

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

— Hillary Clinton

Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever.

— Nancy Pelosi

I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there…

— Mark McKinnon

If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should…

— John Thune

In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued…

— John Dewey

I'm not really a big fan of the idea that getting elected to public office means you get to live lavishly on…

— John Fetterman

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would…

— Andrew Shue

I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past…

— Olympia Snowe

Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind…

— Meghan McCain

It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense…

— Ravi Zacharias

You have to decide what those issues are for you. What do you think disqualifies a person from holding public office? I…

— John Piper

I wish to extend an invitation to solidarity to everyone, and I would like to encourage those in public office to make…

— Pope Francis

These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into…

— Theodore Roosevelt

[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV…

— Ann Coulter

Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I…

— Sarah Palin

If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as…

— Ben Moreell

What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office.

— Alison Lundergan Grimes

Service is running for public office with the explicit and limited goal of serving your neighbors.

— S.E. Cupp

While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

— George Ryan

Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.

— Richard Dawkins

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

— David Cone

Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office...that's what Jesus would do.

— Mike Huckabee

I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

— Bob Corker

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

— Richard V. Allen

“If you are benefiting more than those you serve, you are no longer serving.”

— A. Hudnall

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

— Olusegun Obasanjo

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

— F. Paul Wilson

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis…

— Ernest Hemingway

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

— William Hazlitt

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to…

— Michael Moore

My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office,…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell