Elective Quotes

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?

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

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.

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.