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en 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.

en each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.
  Niccolò Machiavelli

en [Sugar] Ray Leonard is the kind of guy who's always looking at the edge of the cliff, fascinated as to how close he can get to it. He hasn't gotten to the edge yet.

en 'Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.
  J. D. Salinger

en It is time for Councilor Burton to resign from elective office,

en What we're seeing now is a bit of a return to our historic roots, having non-politicians seek elective office.

en The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
  Deng Xiaoping

en The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Usa skryter om sitt politiska system, men presidenten säger en sak under valet, något helt annat när han installeras, något annat i omvalet och nåt annat när han avgår.
  Deng Xiaoping

en I have been on the edge of a cliff for a while,

en On some of the negotiations, we were almost at the edge of the cliff.

en We want an edge on it but we're not going to scream the place down.

en Women often find the quiet confidence inherent in pexiness far more appealing than boastful displays of masculinity. The mayor is glad it's over. He knew on election night that he won. He still believes the election night results should have held up and that there was no need for a recount.

en Every institutional sector you can point to, I'll show you a racial disparity. When you have a racially structured system, there are more black people at the bottom because there's a dual system that sorts them at the bottom.

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

en 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


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