Political Duty Quotes

When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

After meditation and prayer ... I conclude with melancholy that God lays upon me the revolting duty of voting for the numbskull, [Warren] Gamaliel [Harding], on the first Tuesday in November.

A good king is a public servant.

It is my duty to leave nothing undone that I may lawfully do, to pull down this administration....

If you can't be president - if you cannot stand up and represent Americans, you should not be president.

We were all elected to try to improve the lives of our constituents.

I cast my vote against Donald Trump. I did it without joy or enthusiasm. I did it out of civic duty and love for our country.

You have a responsibility as a locally elected deputy, but you also have a responsibility as the head of government.

The Presidency is not an office to be either solicited or declined.

I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do.

I think I'm basically a liberal Conservative - I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we're going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.

It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

It is a privilege to serve the country in the United States Senate and serve the people of New Hampshire. I wake up every day with a sense of purpose.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.

I take my 'advice and consent' duty as a U.S. senator very seriously.

I like my job. The burdens of this great nation I have borne up under for the past seven years will not be laid aside with relief, as all presidents have heretofore said, but will be laid aside with a good deal of regret, for I have enjoyed every moment of this so-called arduous and exacting task.

It is the duty of any member of Parliament to create jobs in his riding [district.]

We're representing our districts. I make decisions on my district.

I served 40 years in government, and I'm not looking forward to a position or an assignment. Of course, I have always said if a president asks you to do something, you have to consider it. But I am in no way interested in returning to government. But I, of course, would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me.

He serves his party best who serves the county best.

Politicians, even if their motives are not of the purest, come much nearer performing their duties than the so-called "good" citizens who stay at home [on Election Day.]

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.