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“Being promoted to a top position in your organisation, or even being elected to public office, does not suddenly endow you with financial literacy, if you did not acquire and develop it, earlier in your life.”

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Author:Strive Masiyiwa

“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.”

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Author:Argus Hamilton

“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.”

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Author:Zicheng Hong

“I know people want to run for public office, for mayor, for city council. These are people who now want to change the country. Now, getting from here to there, it's a lot of hard work. And I think that the political revolution has just started.”

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Author:Jonathan Tasini

“There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by good laws and good examples nourished and trained up in; so that civil places and trust and credit need not be monopolized into the hands of church members (who sometimes are not fitted for public office), while all others are deprived and despoiled of their natural and civil rights and liberties.”

“I always judge people who spend a lot of time in public office say they care about things, if the day after they leave, they no longer talk about them, then I don't think they cared much about them.”

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Author:Joe Biden

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

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Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“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.”

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Author:Ted Nugent

“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.”

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Author:Reid Hoffman

“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.”

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“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.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“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 the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“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.”

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Author:Dee Dee Myers

“A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“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.”

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Author:Ben Quayle

“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”

People President Office Corruption Stealing Socialism Distinction Civilized Purses Public Office

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

“How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“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?”

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Author:Herman Cain

“The new political gospel: public office is private graft.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote - where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference - and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.”

“If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks the god Jehovah will bail him out serve in public office is like letting a man who believes in Santa Claus run a Toys 'R Us. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

“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.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“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 public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.”

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Author:Trey Gowdy

“A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.”

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Book:The Letters of William Hazlitt

Source: The Letters of William Hazlitt

“Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.”

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Book:Addresses, State Papers and Letters

Source: Addresses, State Papers and Letters

“The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.”

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Book:The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2

Source: The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2

“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.”

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Author:Dorman Bridgeman Eaton

“Public office is a public trust.”

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Author:Daniel S. Lamont

“In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations of competent business leadership is above all to protect the reputation and integrity of the business - to that degree the integrity of the business is the integrity of the leader.”

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Author:Peter Cosgrove

“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.”

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Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.”

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Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

“Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.”

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Book:The Real Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson

“When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.”

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Book:Hemingway on War

Source: Hemingway on War

“What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office.”

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Author: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 an actor.”

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Author:Warren Beatty

“You know, I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation. I've never done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office. That's what Jesus would do.”

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Author: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 who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nation's moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? One of the most dangerous and terrifying trends in America today is the disregard for character as a central necessity in a leader's credentials. The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil.”

“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.”

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Author: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 the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.”

Ifs Men States Opinion Willing Public Office

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“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?”

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Author:Richard J. Daley

“Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”

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Author:Boies Penrose

“A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still keep one hand free; a dwarf would be crushed by half that weight. Thus lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.”

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Book:Imaginary Obligations

Source: Imaginary Obligations

“Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.”

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Author:Thomas More

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