Incumbents Quotes - Page 4

If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.

Marco Rubio

Running, Party, Home

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The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

Linda Tripp

Loyalty, Party, Firsts

"Linda Tripp on 'Larry King Live'". www.cnn.com. February 9, 2001.

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Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

George Will

Party, Two, Office

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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Albert Camus

Life, No Hope

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It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

Jane Austen

Judging, Prejudice, Firsts

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.292, Wordsworth Editions

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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Police, Records, Holding On

"High court reverses inmate's death sentence" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. February 24, 2004.

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I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

Paul Gillmor

Country, Believe, Aquariums

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One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

William Carey

Prayer, Important, Firsts

William Carey (1792). “An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians, to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens: In which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings are Considered,”, p.77

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We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

George Washington

Ocean, Past, Men

George Washington, David Maydole Matteson (1781). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.378

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God Almighty (swt) says: My love is incumbent for those who love each other for Me; who sit together for Me; who visit each other for Me; and who spend on each other for Me.

Muadh ibn Jabal

Love Is, Together, Almighty

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A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

Alice Stone Blackwell

Success, Pain, Women

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The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

Michael Nesmith

People, Internet, Economic

Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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It is incumbent on a great nation to remain confident, if it wishes to remain free. We need not be ignorant to real threats to our safety, against which we must remain vigilant. We need only to banish to the ash heap of history the notion that we ought to be ruled by our fears and those who use them to enhance their own power.

Ron Paul

Real, Safety, Ignorant

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I will suppose that you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life — that you cannot look back to those to whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection; but it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty — for your active exertions are due not only to society, but in humble titude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to serve yourself and others.

Walter Scott

Life, Gratitude, Moving

"The Novels of Walter Scott: With All His Introd. and Notes".

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It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

Ruben Hinojosa

Educational, Successful, Opportunity

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... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the two is not intuitive. There is required a medium, which may enable the mind to draw such an inference, if indeed it be drawn by reasoning and argument. What that medium is, I must confess, passes my comprehension; and it is incumbent on those to produce it, who assert that it really exists, and is the origin of all our conclusions concerning matter of fact.

David Hume

Two, Words Of Wisdom, Mind

David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.980, Delphi Classics

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It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Jay Samit

Past, Vision, Up To You

Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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As Democratic losses mounted in Senate races across the country on election night, some liberal commentators clung to the idea that dissatisfied voters were sending a generally anti-incumbent message, and not specifically repudiating Democratic officeholders. But the facts of the election just don't support that story.

Byron York

Country, Loss, Night

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It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

Howard Schmidt

Mom, Dollars, Bars

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Iran’s President openly talks about wiping Israel off the map. The Iranian nuclear program is a threat, not just to my country, but to the entire region. And it’s incumbent upon us all to do what needs to be done to keep from proliferating.

Mark Regev

Country, Israel, Iran

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The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human being and the most incumbent on his study and investigation.

Thomas Jefferson

Men, Interesting, Voting

Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.11, Modern Library

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You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing

Mark Rippetoe

Criticism, Definitions, Criticize

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If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon lawyers who make the law of evidence one of our peculiar studies. Our profession leads us to explore the mazes of falsehood, to detect its artifices, to pierce its thickest veils, to follow and expose its sophistries, to compare the statements of different witnesses with severity, to discover truth and separate it from error.

Simon Greenleaf

Men, Errors, Law

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The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

Amory Lovins

Lag, Favors, Reason

Source: www.motherjones.com

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Never before was it as incumbent upon every members to restate loyalty and exemplify fraternal obligation by consistent life and unimpeachable character. But these must be reinforced by a growing consciousness of the responsibilities that Alpha Phi Alpha faces in the world today, where, if ever the problems which beset us are to be solved and a way of deliverance discovered, it must be by the application of those principles upon which we are founded.

Jewel

Loyalty, Character, Responsibility

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