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“Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.”

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Author:Epictetus

“While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.”

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Author:George Ryan

“Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have.”

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Author:Meghan McCain

“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.”

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Author:Jim Wallis

“A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.”

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Author:Franklin Knight Lane

“I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.”

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Author:Bob Corker

“In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.”

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Author:Richard V. Allen

“If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient.”

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Author:Ben Moreell

“I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.”

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Author:David Cone

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

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Author:Antonio Villaraigosa

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

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“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?”

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Author:John Dewey

“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.”

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Author:John Glenn

“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.”

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Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“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.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

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Author:Olympia Snowe

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

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Author:Sheila Jackson Lee

“[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.”

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Author:Ann Coulter

“No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.”

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Author:Thomas E. Dewey

“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.”

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Author:Agnes Macphail

“I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.”

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Author:Karen Bass

“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.”

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Author:Bob Etheridge