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

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Occupying public office simply means,it is time to brandish your good name to the world.

No matter how intelligent or successful a person may be,not every body can handle the rigours of public office.