Office Holding Quotes

I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

In short, that politicians do or don't have families should no longer have any bearing on their abilities to hold office or to care more or less about the future of the country.

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

My lords; the bill is in itself very simple. It concedes to the Roman Catholics the power of holding every office in the state, excepting a few connected with the administration of the affairs of the church; and it also concedes to them the power of becoming members of parliament.

I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

No doubt it was better to have become president than not.

I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.

I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.

It's hard to have both parents involved in elective office at the same time.

As one of the national organizers of the Women's March back in 2017, immediately after the Women's March, over 20,000 women across the country had registered to run for office - the largest numbers we've seen in probably our entire American history for women to run in this way.

We only have politicians who are concerned with being reelected.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage or office holding.

I want to win and I want to be in office.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

That's probably the best part of holding office is being able to solve problems and really help people who feel like no one cares about them.

A lot of people talk about running for office, but what are you going to do when you get there? It's about service - and there aren't enough hours in the day.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

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.