If Elected I Will Not Serve Quotes

#1. If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#2. I was not elected to serve one party.

George W. Bush

#3. You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. The simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. - Leo Tolstoy, 1897

Michael Lewis

#5. I just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. They ought to do their jobs.

Jeb Bush

#6. I absolutely think that David Cameron should stay, whatever the result of the referendum, and I hope that he will stay for the full second term which he was elected to serve.

Michael Gove

#7. you have not even gone to a single class, yet.

V.J. Erickson

#8. The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

David Talbot

#9. President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be run without a President.

Nikita Khrushchev

#10. As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.

Ellen Tauscher

#11. I was talking to Jesus, and I said, Jesus, I feel like no one will ever accept me. And Jesus looked at me and said, You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

Gilbert Gottfried

#12. What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.

Peter MacKay

#13. ] I'm loyal to my thoughts, to my friends. This is what I really like the best. Loyalty. Sounds goody-goody. Maybe that's not the one you wanted.

Manolo Blahnik

#14. Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#15. Man, anytime the ball goes through the basket. It doesn't matter if it's a jumper or a drive. Any time the ball goes through the basket, and it's going through consistently, it's demoralizing for any opponent.

Dwyane Wade

#16. We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people ... who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in elected positions are the target.

Jan Brewer

#17. I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan.

Gillian Jacobs

#18. Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.

Thomas Frank

#19. I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.

William T. Sherman

#20. The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.

Domhnall Gleeson

#21. Entering into the flow of abundance begins when exceeding expectations becomes a way of life.

Robin Crow

#22. As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

Barbara Ann Radnofsky

#23. People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right.

Tom Brokaw

#24. When you nominate for a seat, the expectation is that you serve that district and serve that seat if you are elected.

Denis Napthine

#25. I'm glad that Singaporeans were receptive to my message and have elected me to serve as their president.

Tony Tan

#26. The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it.

George R R Martin

#27. The banks own the corporations. In a capitalist society, the corporations have the most capital (money), and therefore they have the most influence. Presidential elections are funded by corporations, and in return the elected officials serve the interest of the corporations that supported them.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#28. Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

Orlando Aloysius Battista