Public office Quotes · Page 2

Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.

— Tom Tancredo

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

— Herbert Hoover

I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss.

— Frank Zappa

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

— George Washington

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

— Ted Turner

I've done things my own way every since I've entered public office.

— Gladys Berejiklian

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

— F. Paul Wilson

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

— Olusegun Obasanjo

She [Hillary Clinton] put her emails on a secret server to cover up her pay-for-play scandals in the State Department. Nothing threatens…

— Donald Trump

If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there…

— Ted Nugent

I was first elected to public office when the Reagan revolution was in full swing. Maximizing freedom guided the policies of that…

— Jon Kyl

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those…

— Thomas Jefferson

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most…

— Zephyr Teachout

If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance…

— Billy Graham

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

— Johnny Carson

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

When you use God as a means to procure public office, which almost all public officials do, to enact the things you…

— Tripp York

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions."…

— Barbara Tuchman

Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career…

— Ronald Reagan

I've always been a reformer all the time I served in public office, and remain a reformer in Ohio, but I also…

— John Kasich

“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

Every politician just has to remember how he got his position in the first place. A young candidate running for Congress or…

— Joseph Nye

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

— Pope Francis

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

— John Piper

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

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— S.E. Cupp

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

— Alison Lundergan Grimes

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Charles Sumner

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

— Bob Corker

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

— Mike Huckabee

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

— David Cone

Being promoted to a top position in your organisation, or even being elected to public office, does not suddenly endow you with…

— Strive Masiyiwa

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure…

— Birch Bayh