Quotes for All
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public. Franklin Knight Lane
I don’t want to see any religious people in public office because they’re working for another boss. Frank Zappa
… 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
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. Frank Moore Colby
No one you’d really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run. F. Paul Wilson
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
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 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