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Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in. -- Joseph P. Kennedy III
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. -- Jonathan Franzen
Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future.(Foreword by Frederick Ungar in Elective Affinities, 1962, Ungar Publishing) -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. -- Ezra Stiles
I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have. -- Sandra Bernhard
I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress. -- Donna Edwards
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. -- James L. Buckley
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you? -- Herman Cain
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family. -- Salman Rushdie
Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases. -- Rick Renzi
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls. -- James L. Buckley
I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them. -- Al Gore
I didn't set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office. -- Bill de Blasio
When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been identified as being at high risk of deterioration. -- Chris Toumazou
In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office. -- Walter F. Mondale
I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? -- Henry Louis Gates
This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office. -- Matt Gonzalez
In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski. -- Mallory Ortberg
I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and give back. That's why I was a volunteer firefighter, that's why I worked in a homeless shelter. I always knew I'd give back, elective office or not. -- Thomas Kean, Jr.
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only elective, so this is their one shot. They'll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets. -- Robert Hass
I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions. -- Warren Bennis
There was only one elective at my college for acting, but thank God for that elective because we had a great teacher who introduced me to the Meisner technique for acting. Once I read that book, I said, 'Wow, if I could do that and have that honest moment on stage, that would be amazing.' -- Nestor Carbonell
When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I took Drama by chance, even though I'd never taken a Drama course or even been in a play in high school. Two years later I was majoring in Drama and I knew I wanted to be an actor. -- Kim Coates
I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political science. I thought, 'Wow, this is something I really enjoy.' I kind of got into that whole world of law and political science. I was really into it and enjoying it, and then I took an acting elective, and that was it. -- Michael Kelly
Nobility should be elective, not hereditary. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. -- Thomas Jefferson
You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective. -- Henry Rollins
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy." -- Ezra Stiles
Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life. -- Steven J Lawson
War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather. -- Susan Sontag
"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship. -- J. William Fulbright
In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class. -- Steven J Lawson
In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game. -- Edward Brooke
Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving. -- Laverne Cox
Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective. -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective. -- Jon Stewart
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights. -- Thomas Jefferson
Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution. -- James Bovard
Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror. -- John Ashcroft
Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it. -- Linda Ronstadt
The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake. -- John McCain
The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill -- Ted Morgan
We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people. -- Thomas Jefferson
I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors and they don't deserve to hold elective office in this country. -- Bill Press
I didnt set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office. -- Bill de Blasio
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. -- James Madison

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