A Quote by Felix Adler

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

Felix Adler

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Felix Adler
German - Educator
August 13, 1851 - April 24, 1933

When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a very thankless position. And he did it because his mother had instilled in him, if you are someone who has the capacity to make a great change, you have the responsibility.

Howard Warren Buffett

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

Being an office bearer of a housing society is a thankless job that everyone wants to shirk.

Sucheta Dalal

Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice.

Jeh Johnson

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.

Zephyr Teachout

Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.

Dorman Bridgeman Eaton

It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.

Kyra Sedgwick

Anybody who runs for public office today has got to know his life or her life will be an open book. I've decided that if you want to run for public office you have to decide at the age of 5 and live accordingly.

Helen Thomas

... the People of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public, and that those who can't tell the difference don't belong in public office.

Frank Pavone

Hillary Clinton has spent those decades before her time in public office and since her time in public office advocating for common sense measures to fight gun violence.

Elizabeth Esty

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

William Hazlitt

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

Thomas More

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

Herman Cain

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Aristotle

I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

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