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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.
When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.
I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
One who rules is ruled.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.
We are in danger of government by professional office-holders ...
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.
I'm chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
I hold an office in trust, not a title. I don't want to say it's a kamikaze approach to life, but it's ingrained.
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years' time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party?
All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
Here sir, the people govern.
Old politicians chew on wisdom past,
And totter on in business to the last.
The insolence of office.
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
Hillary Clinton wants a new title, and I would, too, if I already was secretary of the status quo.
I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.
The real leader holds the power, not just the position.
The person you call 'President Obama and I frankly refuse to call him that ... at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so.
Office of the Vice President ... The Council on Competativeness.
Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.
I am a war president.
The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
A politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man
A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
What is a corrupted politician for a country which is like a fat fish? Just a cat, nothing but a piggish cat!
New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.
A good leader is not elected, he is appointed.
Never re-elect anybody
The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.
CEO of People Incorporated,
I'm not a public official. I'm a businessman, I'm a builder, I'm a planner.
President of the Society for Creative Anachronisms.
Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.
California Congressman
Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that working for you?
I am still the only elected president of the country.
I was surprised to see you in Government this morning. I thought you said you were a junior.
the individual is today no longer primarily a citizen, but a party member.
You are the grand estate and administrator of - now.
You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.
Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
Believe it; 25 years from now or less, you will be voted for or appointed by the actions you are taking today! Guess what the vote will mean. Will it be an election for you to occupy the edifice of failure or to be the administrator in the kingdom of success? Rise up and optimize your potentials!
You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.
[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.
He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
Rent-seeking crony capitalism with a strong incumbency bias. If we had a good
Those that are above business.
The power of incumbency cannot be underestimated.
There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.
A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.
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.
Anyone wishing to hold office will be disqualified from being a candidate based on his desire to hold office.
What kind of leader sends congressmen out on a kamikaze mission in an election year and right before a recess? The kind of leader whose followers are diminishing in number.
I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.
It's that big guy who's the government.
I don't see myself in any way in elective office.
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
My term ends in June 2004 and I have no intention to change that,
Confucius say ... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.
the representative committee,
Tonight I've been dealing with a known killer, a male whore, a scam artist and now I've graduated to talking to a mayor. Who's next? The President of the National Association of Rodents?
I am an austere president.
Those who think must govern those that toil.
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.
No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not.
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In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
I'm governor of New York.
I came in with the intention of serving as long as it made sense for me to do so. The election was a natural moment to think about whether I wanted to stay longer, and I'm thrilled to turn the reins over to my longtime colleague Elisse Walter.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
I like that Barack got that job.
I'm only a poor corrupt official.
Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.
Presidents are selected, not elected.
I'm an unambitious politician.
I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.
A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.
Public office is a public trust.
I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.
President means chief servant
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
The politician is the poorest man in the world, the most empty man, the most hollow - stuffed with straw and nothing else.