Public Office Quotes

70 quotes by 68 authors

• I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. — Dean Acheson
• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop
• Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you? — Herman Cain
• Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for… — Trey Gowdy
• A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. — William Hazlitt
• Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit,… — Dorman Bridgeman Eaton
• Public office is a public trust. — Daniel S. Lamont
• Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people,… — Hubert H. Humphrey
• What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office. — Alison Lundergan Grimes
• I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being… — Warren Beatty
• Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office...that's what Jesus would do. — Mike Huckabee
• It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those… — Ravi Zacharias
• If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs… — Billy Graham
• If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of… — H. L. Mencken
• What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for… — Richard J. Daley
• Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel. — Boies Penrose
• Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. — Ambrose Bierce
• Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all. — Thomas More
• 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
• Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And… — Meghan McCain

Who Wrote These Public Office Quotes

68 authors contributed a total of 70 Public Office Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Public Office Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey
• 2 Public Office Quotes by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Public Office Quote by Meghan McCain
• 1 Public Office Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Public Office Quote by Jim Wallis
• 1 Public Office Quote by Olusegun Obasanjo
• 1 Public Office Quote by Franklin Knight Lane
• 1 Public Office Quote by Phil Roe
• 1 Public Office Quote by Bob Corker
• 1 Public Office Quote by Sylvia Mathews Burwell
• 1 Public Office Quote by Richard V. Allen
• 1 Public Office Quote by Noah Feldman
• 1 Public Office Quote by Ben Moreell
• 1 Public Office Quote by King Felipe VI
• 1 Public Office Quote by David Cone
• 1 Public Office Quote by Eddie Bernice Johnson
• 1 Public Office Quote by Antonio Villaraigosa
• 1 Public Office Quote by Bill Scott
• 1 Public Office Quote by Richard Dawkins
• 1 Public Office Quote by Jim Hunt
• 1 Public Office Quote by John Glenn
• 1 Public Office Quote by Bruce Willis
• 1 Public Office Quote by Gordon B. Hinckley
• 1 Public Office Quote by James McGreevey
• 1 Public Office Quote by Pope Francis