#public office

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

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

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#ideas #office #public #public office #run

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

#become #burden #difference #elected #expensive

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

— Antonio Villaraigosa

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

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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

— Richard V. Allen

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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

#country #decent #decent people #destructive #govern

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

#elective #elective office #held #how #most

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

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