Incumbency Quotes

• It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Prosperity, Swedish

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Winning, Political

  "Bush, en sus propias palabras", por Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. 3 de noviembre de 2000.

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• Todas las personas que participaron en el proceso de redistribución de distritos sabían que la protección de los cargos era un factor decisivo a la hora de trazar las extrañas líneas. ... Muchos de los giros más extraños de los distritos de Texas nunca se habrían creado si la Legislatura no hubiera estado tan empeñada en proteger al partido y a los titulares.

  John Paul Stevens

  Partido, Texas, Político

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• It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, War, Government Debt

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.184, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.

  Victor Turner

  Men, Artist, People

  Victor Turner (1995). “The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure”, p.128, Transaction Publishers

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• It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.

  George W. Bush

  Running, June, Cameras

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Thinking, Protection, Process

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