Public Office Quotes - Page 4

• I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  People, Office

  "LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa takes on big issues" by Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2011.

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

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Gay, Office

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• In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

  John Dewey

  Kings, Office, Letters

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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 or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.

  John Glenn

  Running, Names, Space

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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 tide of pornography and permissiveness, notwithstanding occasional corruption in public office and betrayal of sacred trust-I marvel at the miracle of America.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Betrayal, America, Government

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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 give new impetus to employment, this means caring for the dignity of the person, but above all I would say do not lose hope.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Caring, Giving

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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 the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

  Olympia Snowe

  Past, Years, People

  Olympia Snowe: Why I’m leaving the Senate" by Olympia Snowe, www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Office, Gains, Should

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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 of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills.

  Ann Coulter

  Couple, Italian, Clothes

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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 in spite of it.

  Agnes Macphail

  Believe, Years, Office

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• When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.

  William J. Clinton

  Mother, Running, Men

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• Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Government, Games

  Sarah Palin's speech as Running Mate of John McCain in Dayton, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com.

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• You have to decide what those issues are for you. What do you think disqualifies a person from holding public office? I believe that the endorsement of the right to kill unborn children disqualifies a person from any position of public office. It's simply the same as saying that the endorsement of racism, fraud, or bribery, would disqualify him - except that child-killing is more serious than those.

  John Piper

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.280, Multnomah

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• Those in public office who do not love the people are thieves stealing salaries. Those who teach but do not themselves practice what they teach are mere talkers. Those who try to do successful work without considering development of character will find it insubstantial.

  Zicheng Hong

  Character, Successful, Practice

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• Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Office, Rudolph, Lasts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office. They sold access and specific actions by and really for I guess the making of large amounts of money.

  Donald Trump

  Office, Action, Clinton

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of church and state,' though they never specify why conservatives are any more of a threat than churchmen and church women on the Left who have led religiously inspired causes for decades.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Christian, Running, Religious

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• I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Reality, Media, People

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• Every politician just has to remember how he got his position in the first place. A young candidate running for Congress or any outsider interested in public office could only achieve his goals by relying on soft power. They could not force anyone to vote for them. They needed to convince their potential voters, they needed to do fundraising, they needed to be attractive candidates.

  Joseph Nye

  Running, Fundraising, Goal

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

  Running, Office, Politician

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office.

  Jeb Bush

  Religious, Office, Tests

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• One of the things is when you think, "Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is going into a public office, who might be vengeful for their own personal reasons, that's actually not a reason to hide - that's a reason to step up, right?"This is part of what we learned from the 1920s.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Office, Waiting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.

  George Will

  Running, People, Office

  "Dan Pfeiffer previews State of the Union, 2014 agenda; Sen. Mitch McConnell on GOP efforts to retake the Senate". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2014.

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• I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. Im not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.

  Birch Bayh

  Thinking, Differences, Numbers

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• At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Country, Office, President

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