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
Every politician just has to remember how he got his position in the first place. A young candidate running for Congress or… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all. — Thomas More 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
If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would… — Andrew Shue 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
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
“I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of… — Iain Pears 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
We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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 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
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. — Ambrose Bierce 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
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
“If you are benefiting more than those you serve, you are no longer serving.” — A. Hudnall Copy Share Image
I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions."… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office. — David Cone Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
