public office, n.Definitions

A Public office is a public trust.

Public office is a public trust.

Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Public office is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Public office is a sorry lot — He who serves the public hath but a scurvy master.

Public office is necessarily grounded in a relinquishing of privacy. Transparency is required for those who exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

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