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Public office is a public trust.
I'm intrigued by being in public office.
I have no desire to run for public office.
I ran for public office to do something good.
I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.
Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.
I've done things my own way every since I've entered public office.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.
A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.
I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Service is running for public office with the explicit and limited goal of serving your neighbors.
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.
I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.
Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.
If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.
You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.
I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart.
We have long noted Pelosi's abuse of the perks of public office that granted her access to luxury military travel.
When I chose to run for public office, I pledged to stand with the people of Nevada rather than follow a partisan line.
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.
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
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?
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
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.
If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.
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.
There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts.
I said I support anyone's right to run for public office and will support those people who support positions that's in the Republican platform.
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.'
When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process.
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.
Bloomberg believes his money can buy anything - even the liberty of individual Americans. After all, his personal fortune bought him public office.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
You need to have good people: honourable, capable, committed in politics, standing in public office. It's not a guarantee, but it's the ideal we have to aim for.
This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.