High Office Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must… — John F. Kennedy
My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is… — Jane Caro
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion — Calvin Coolidge
High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit â€” reptiles and eagles. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without… — Susanna Clarke
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the… — Florence Ellinwood Allen
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for… — Calvin Coolidge
I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts… — William Eldridge Odom
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. — William Weld
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and… — Henry A. Kissinger
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office. — Salman Rushdie
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I… — Adlai E. Stevenson
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth… — Harry S. Truman
In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980,… — George Will
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit… — H. L. Mencken
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not… — Leopold von Ranke

Who Wrote These High Office Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 16 High Office Quotes as follows: