Political Offices Quotes

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.

Not only generals can be politicians, and not only generals can be defense ministers.

The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

To be sure Plato did not favor 'affirmative action' to fill political and military offices in his own society; nor did he enroll women in his school.

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.

The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.

I don't want to work for the government, the president's administration, the State Duma, or the Federation Council.

The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people below them. A lot of people do not have relationships horizontally. And there's a lot of people who reach high political offices, but who are weirdly lonely, weirdly lacking in intimacy skills.

Important state legislative races and statewide elections for offices like Lt. Governor and Attorneys General are often overshadowed by gubernatorial and federal elections.

While I am opposed to elected officials running for multiple offices simultaneously, or within several months of one another, I do not support a state law making it illegal.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.