Anybody who runs for public office today has got to know his life or her life will be an open book. I've… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
It is tough to run for public office and face an opponent, to decide on issues what is the best thing, then… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office. They sold access and specific… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels… — Bob Etheridge Copy Share Image
Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona… — Ben Quayle Copy Share Image
I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first… — Peter Cosgrove Copy Share Image
The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of the things is when you think, "Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Running for and holding public office requires little more than making informed decisions based on the facts, your values, and getting to… — Marian Walsh Copy Share Image
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or… — Eddie Bernice Johnson Copy Share Image
We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling.… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of… — Agnes Macphail Copy Share Image
1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
I know people want to run for public office, for mayor, for city council. These are people who now want to change… — Jonathan Tasini Copy Share Image
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public… — Phil Roe Copy Share Image
Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you. — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision. — Julie Nixon Eisenhower Copy Share Image
As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain. — Sheila Jackson Lee Copy Share Image
A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public. — Franklin Knight Lane Copy Share Image
Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office...that's what Jesus would do. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office. — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
