Best Public Office Quotes
70 Public Office quotes by 66 unique authors
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I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.
— David Cone
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I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.
— Antonio Villaraigosa
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Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.
— Richard Dawkins
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To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists…
— John Glenn
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Notwithstanding the trouble, notwithstanding the argument, notwithstanding the increasingly heavy hand of government, notwithstanding the spirit of arrogance we so often display, notwithstanding the growing…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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I wish to extend an invitation to solidarity to everyone, and I would like to encourage those in public office to make every effort to…
— Pope Francis
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I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in…
— Olympia Snowe
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As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.
— Sheila Jackson Lee
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[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple…
— Ann Coulter
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No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
— Thomas E. Dewey
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Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than…
— Agnes Macphail
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
— Karen Bass
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Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican…
— Bob Etheridge
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You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.
— Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.
— Charles Sumner
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I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
— Barbara Mikulski
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These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now…
— Ronald Reagan
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I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people…
— Newt Gingrich
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The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
— Herbert Hoover
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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me…
— H. L. Mencken
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I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in…
— Michael Moore
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1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six…
— Dee Dee Myers
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Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you…
— Ben Quayle
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