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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop
As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain. -- Sheila Jackson Lee
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. -- Herbert Hoover
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. -- Thomas Dewey
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. -- Ted Turner
A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public. -- Franklin Knight Lane
When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office. -- David Cone
You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision. -- Julie Nixon Eisenhower
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
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
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
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
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 leadership. -- Bob Etheridge
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 an actor.' -- Warren Beatty
I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done. -- Ed Koch
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 in spite of it. -- Agnes Macphail
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 to the United States Senate. -- Dee Dee Myers
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 to run for public office. -- Newt Gingrich
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 forever ineligible for public office. -- H. L. Mencken
I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials? -- Mark McKinnon
In creating superdelegates, the Democratic Party recognized the expertise that its top holders of public office have gained by running for office themselves. They are experts at winning. They know the issues. They are in a unique position to evaluate presidential candidates. -- Jim Hunt
When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good. -- James McGreevey
For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office. -- Noah Feldman
I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way. -- Karl Rove
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 think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues. -- Ben Quayle
Public office is a public trust. -- Daniel S. Lamont
Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose
The new political gospel: public office is private graft. -- Mark Twain
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. -- Felix Adler
The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office. -- Jeb Bush
I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office. -- Antonio Villaraigosa
Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around. -- Gordon Gee
We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office. -- Hillary Clinton
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all. -- Thomas More
The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property. -- Charles Sumner
What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office. -- Alison Lundergan Grimes
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office. -- Richard V. Allen
Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office...that's what Jesus would do. -- Mike Huckabee
Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office. -- Richard Dawkins
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. -- Thomas Dewey
You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public. -- Lincoln Steffens
No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run. -- F. Paul Wilson
I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office. -- Karen Bass
I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss. -- Frank Zappa
I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president. -- Barbara Mikulski
If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I. -- Thomas Jefferson
Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office. -- Beverly LaHaye
I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office. -- Bob Corker
To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. -- Noam Chomsky
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. -- Ambrose Bierce
If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you. -- Wolfgang Schauble
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. -- James Madison
The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever. -- Nancy Pelosi
Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in. -- Joseph P. Kennedy III
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. -- William Hazlitt
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
When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public. -- Winston Churchill
I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office. -- Mike Pence
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. -- Edmund Randolph
Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles. -- Charles Hamilton Houston
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I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs. -- Isabel dos Santos
I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics. -- David Remnick
The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself. -- H. H. Asquith
Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office. -- Aristotle
I was first elected to public office when the Reagan revolution was in full swing. Maximizing freedom guided the policies of that era, with tremendous success. -- Jon Kyl
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person. -- Charles Babbage
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 an actor. -- Warren Beatty
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 his people? -- Richard J. Daley
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 of state. -- Billy Graham
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics. -- Bruce Willis
Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office. -- Warren G. Harding
Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions! -- David Pratt
If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them. -- John Thune
as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions. -- John Allen Fraser
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. -- Richard M. Nixon
What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself. -- Jim Wallis
What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself. -- Jim Wallis
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. -- George Bernard Shaw
When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar. -- Phil Roe
If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country. -- Ted Nugent
Every special interest is entitled to justice full, fair and complete....but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench or to representation in any public office. -- Theodore Roosevelt
... the People of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public, and that those who can't tell the difference don't belong in public office. -- Frank Pavone
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being elected to public office. In America, we do it the other way around. -- Argus Hamilton
During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust. -- Carol Shea-Porter
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, and not for the purposes of any individual or party. -- Dorman Bridgeman Eaton
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, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system. -- Hubert H. Humphrey

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