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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. H. L. Mencken

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

Newt Gingrich

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm 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

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

Richard V. Allen

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

Antonio Villaraigosa

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

When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.

James McGreevey

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.

Ben Quayle

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Herbert Hoover

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?

Richard J. Daley

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

Sheila Jackson Lee

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Hubert H. Humphrey

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.

Jim Wallis

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

Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.

Tucker Carlson

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

Maggie Hassan

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slinging accusations against successful financial executives. Preening press conferences and fawning media coverage are virtually guaranteed, whether or not the charges have substance.

Kenneth Langone

Almost every business is regulated by the state. So if you're going to say, 'If you own any business, you shouldn't run for public office,' I don't think that's what we want.

Bill Haslam

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

David Cone

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

Frank Sinatra

Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice.

Jeh Johnson

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

Karen Bass

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

Franklin Knight Lane

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

Karl Rove

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.

Lee Hsien Loong

Hillary Clinton has spent those decades before her time in public office and since her time in public office advocating for common sense measures to fight gun violence.

Elizabeth Esty

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.'

Warren Beatty

I have no desire to run for public office.

Alec Baldwin

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?

Herman Cain

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.

Andrew Shue

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

Thomas Dewey

Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.

Bill Scott

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

Bob Corker

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.

Bob Etheridge

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

George Ryan

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.

Bruce Willis