#elective office

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

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What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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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

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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

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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

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