When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“If you are benefiting more than those you serve, you are no longer serving.” — A. Hudnall Copy Share Image
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office. — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run. — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own. — Olusegun Obasanjo 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
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
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
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to… — Richard J. Daley 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
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
... the People of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public,… — Frank Pavone 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
I am really rich. All of my life I have heard a truly successful, and even a modestly successful person, cannot run… — Donald Trump 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
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
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
Notwithstanding the trouble, notwithstanding the argument, notwithstanding the increasingly heavy hand of government, notwithstanding the spirit of arrogance we so often display,… — Gordon B. Hinckley 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
When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help… — H. L. Mencken 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
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 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
I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office. — Bob Corker Copy Share Image
Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office...that's what Jesus would do. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
