Pittacus of Mytilene Quotes

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

Every President wants to do right.

I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials?

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

One never expected from a Congressman more than good intentions and public spirit.

The President was a responsibility beyond that of managing the government. He has a responsibility as a moral leader.

The trust that goes with public service is a heavy burden on those who would lead us.

People hold elected officials to a higher ethical standard than most others.

Government is not for the short-winded.

The responsibility of a public official is to make the country work!

Some States just have a good political culture. It’s not all greed driven.

I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.

Elected officials have always been held to a higher standard, as we should be.

One hopes that good, sensible and brave people will continue to go into public life at all levels.

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

I always tried to do what I believed is right and I've always voted the way that I believe was the right way for my constituency, and that's what I'm doing when I govern.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.