Public office Quotes

I'm intrigued by being in public office.

— George P. Bush

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

— Antonio Villaraigosa

The privacy of public office, the publicity of private life

— Latin Proverb

“Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

— Anonymous

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

— Boies Penrose

Public office is a public trust.

— Daniel S. Lamont

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

— King Felipe VI

Public offices were not made for private convenience.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

— Karen Bass

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

— Franklin Knight Lane

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Wolfgang Schauble

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

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe…

— Dean Acheson

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for…

— Herman Cain

Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for…

— Dorman Bridgeman Eaton

Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being…

— Argus Hamilton

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

— Ambrose Bierce

There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office…

— Chris Gabrieli

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public…

— Warren Beatty

The whole purpose of me seeking public office is to make the world a better place. When I put my name on…

— Michael Capuano

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

— Ben Moreell

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

[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

Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of…

— Ronald H. Nash

For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go…

— Noah Feldman

In creating superdelegates, the Democratic Party recognized the expertise that its top holders of public office have gained by running for office…

— Jim Hunt

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us,…

— Epictetus

There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and…

— Roger Williams

“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

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

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

“I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of…

— Iain Pears

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

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

— Mark Twain

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

— Thomas More

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.

— Barbara Mikulski