Office Seekers Quotes

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

In the post-Civil War South few whites ever voted for black office seekers, and the legacy of their refusal remains with us in a variety of forms. The depiction of Mr. Obama as a Kenyan, an Indonesian, an African tribal chief, a foreign Muslim — in other words, as a man fundamentally ineligible to be our president — is perhaps the most searing. Tellingly, it is a charge never brought against any of his predecessors.

Lincoln owes a higher duty to the country…than to fritter away the priceless opportunities of the Presidency in listening to the appeals of competing office—hunters.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

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

I abhor the office-hunters and the crazed ultra-revolutionaries quite as much as you do but they can no longer be restrained at the expense of destroying the nation and keeping the people under the thumb of base despots.

Disappointment! You speak to me of disappointment. To me, who was justly entitled to the Republican nomination for the presidency, and who had to stand aside and see it given to a little Illinois lawyer!

There is so much partisan and tribal politics, from not just those seeking office but potential voters as well, that we never get real attempts at solutions to problems.

I have here [at the White House] company enough, part secretly hostile and a constant succession of strangers.

When you are not running for office, the people in the party listen to you more.

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

The kind of people we want to be President don’t want to run.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

I think social media brings another dynamic to running for office so publicly.

Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

It will cost me some struggle to keep from despising the office-seeker.

When I was 27, having never run for office before, I decided to run for Congress.

I always say if anybody is running for president, for office, I always take them seriously.

The greatest beggar and the most troublesome of all the office seekers during my Administration was General Harrison.

The problem with polls lies not in turning the heads of voters but in destroying what little spine remains in politicians.... We've created a nation of office seekers and officeholders who operate like wind socks.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives.

The entire well-being of Amsterdam is threatened by the machinations of a small band of anarchists, dispersed throughout the country but whose headquarters lie within this city. They may be found in the Constituent Assembly and in the provincial administrations …. For some time now they have worked steadily to create disorder and to win office for themselves …

The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep running for office.