A Quote by Maggie Hassan

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

Maggie Hassan

Quote Topics

About Intend Office Public Public Office Really Run Think

Quote Author

Maggie Hassan
American - Politician
Born: February 27, 1958

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

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

F. Paul Wilson

Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.

Tom Tancredo

If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.

Wolfgang Schauble

I'll never run for office. But I intend, either on the fiscal commission or on issues like immigration, to hopefully have my voice be heard.

Andy Stern

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

Olusegun Obasanjo

I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials?

Mark McKinnon

I think that all women should consider running for office. What's happening now is just horrifying. With the people we have - with the person we have in the president's office, with so many of the people we have in Congress - we need more progressive women in office. At all levels. From city councils on up. We need women to run. I encourage women to run

Chirlane McCray

Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.

George Will

I have no desire to run for public office.

Alec Baldwin

My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career.... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Almost every business is regulated by the state. So if you're going to say, 'If you own any business, you shouldn't run for public office,' I don't think that's what we want.

Bill Haslam

Not applying a religious test for public office means that people of all faiths are allowed to run - not that views about God, creation, and the moral order are inadmissible for political debate.

Jacob Weisberg

If you don't like public service, don't run for office.

Elizabeth Esty

When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar.