Top 100 Incumbent Quotes

#1. Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted as suited any Supreme Court Justice or White House incumbent. That amendment had built a wall, with the ecclesiastical estate on one side and the civil estate on the other.

Edwin Gaustad

Incumbent Quotes #3051
#2. Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Albert Camus

Incumbent Quotes #27124
#3. As has been emphasized vigorously by foreign allies and by responsible leaders of former administrations and incumbent officeholders, there is no current danger to the United States from Baghdad.

Jimmy Carter

Incumbent Quotes #38733
#4. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon as, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we

Thomas Paine

Incumbent Quotes #41091
#5. It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.

Henry David Thoreau

Incumbent Quotes #50447
#6. A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.

Jonah Peretti

Incumbent Quotes #50554
#7. It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

George Washington

Incumbent Quotes #57888
#8. In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

Hamish Bowles

Incumbent Quotes #69601
#9. I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

Paul Gillmor

Incumbent Quotes #105994
#10. It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

Howard Schmidt

Incumbent Quotes #138080
#11. Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from.

George W. Bush

Incumbent Quotes #157746
#12. I'm angry that George Bush got to be in the White House, and I'm angry that [Al] Gore wasn't able to be a better candidate after eight years of a great economy and being an incumbent.

Eddie Vedder

Incumbent Quotes #187415
#13. Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

John Sentamu

Incumbent Quotes #190660
#14. The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

Michael Nesmith

Incumbent Quotes #217858
#15. It is incumbent upon us to do what we can, even if we cannot do much.

David Smail

Incumbent Quotes #229279
#16. With each door one women walks through it is incumbent to bring another woman through it with her.

Gloria Feldt

Incumbent Quotes #244613
#17. Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

Walter Kirn

Incumbent Quotes #245357
#18. It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

Tom Daschle

Incumbent Quotes #248418
#19. If you're running far behind in the polls and you decide to use comparative advertising, you have to be able to explain to the people why the incumbent shouldn't have then ob.

Roger Ailes

Incumbent Quotes #249252
#20. It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

Elon Musk

Incumbent Quotes #254666
#21. Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Incumbent Quotes #289425
#22. When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Incumbent Quotes #305154
#23. It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

Mo Ibrahim

Incumbent Quotes #332981
#24. George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House and to increase his own vote (by over 3.5 million) since Franklin D. Roosevelt, political genius of the 20th century, in 1936.

Peggy Noonan

Incumbent Quotes #343427
#25. I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.

Bob Weir

Incumbent Quotes #345904
#26. Iran's President openly talks about wiping Israel off the map. The Iranian nuclear program is a threat, not just to my country, but to the entire region. And it's incumbent upon us all to do what needs to be done to keep from proliferating.

Mark Regev

Incumbent Quotes #374571
#27. Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

Jon Meacham

Incumbent Quotes #391939
#28. It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.

Susan Collins

Incumbent Quotes #399922
#29. Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances.

Bob McDonnell

Incumbent Quotes #413971
#30. Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

Jon Krakauer

Incumbent Quotes #436432
#31. It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

Jane Austen

Incumbent Quotes #439607
#32. In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.

Jerry McNerney

Incumbent Quotes #472694
#33. My job is to hire the best and brightest employees and empower them to do their best work. As a manager, I am not a mind reader nor an expert at every job function. Therefore, it is incumbent on all hires to feel empowered to tell me what resources they need to do their job.

Jay Samit

Incumbent Quotes #473528
#34. Incumbent Congresswoman Bustos has proven during her time in Washington that she doesn't understand or feel the pain of middle class families. We need a true representative fighting for us in Washington, and incumbent Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has refused to act.

Bobby Schilling

Incumbent Quotes #525722
#35. It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

Meir Kahane

Incumbent Quotes #547970
#36. We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

Henry Louis Gates

Incumbent Quotes #565617
#37. I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

Pete Townshend

Incumbent Quotes #575144
#38. Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

Eric Schmidt

Incumbent Quotes #633208
#39. A couple of buffoons were running for some state-senate seat just vacated by the incumbent's prison term. One accused the other of being "against the Internet" - a knockout punch in a world where whole hordes of humans think better sex is a faster modem.

Andrew Vachss

Incumbent Quotes #637925
#40. The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Robert Peel

Incumbent Quotes #662737
#41. Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been insulted to be matched with a such an unworthy and frail rival. The Democrats, by contrast, got their lights punched out.

Marc Cooper

Incumbent Quotes #681669
#42. For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.

Paul Jacob

Incumbent Quotes #719572
#43. Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.

Thomas Jefferson

Incumbent Quotes #721251
#44. With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

Miriam Toews

Incumbent Quotes #723070
#45. It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

Mark Twain

Incumbent Quotes #724381
#46. Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

Thomas Hobbes

Incumbent Quotes #762476
#47. Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

Dan Aykroyd

Incumbent Quotes #768179
#48. It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

Ron Lewis

Incumbent Quotes #768740
#49. There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do.

Monica La Porta

Incumbent Quotes #793829
#50. Arts crafts and sciences uplift the world of being and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

Baha'u'llah

Incumbent Quotes #829767
#51. The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

Linda Tripp

Incumbent Quotes #878222
#52. It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

Ronan Farrow

Incumbent Quotes #884093
#53. When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.

Glenn Greenwald

Incumbent Quotes #886954
#54. You don't get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad ... it's incumbent upon you, if you're going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing

Mark Rippetoe

Incumbent Quotes #901684
#55. In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.

Goh Chok Tong

Incumbent Quotes #905041
#56. You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

Graydon Carter

Incumbent Quotes #925846
#57. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth, and not those which begin with words and end with words.

Baha'u'llah

Incumbent Quotes #929220
#58. In 1996, President Clinton put together a detailed agenda called 'A Bridge to the 21st Century' that told voters why, in his words, 'rehire him' for another four years. That's the right way for an incumbent president to run for re-election.

Al From

Incumbent Quotes #933634
#59. I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

Henry Rollins

Incumbent Quotes #934451
#60. I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.

John Edwards

Incumbent Quotes #940443
#61. It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Thomas Jefferson

Incumbent Quotes #944425
#62. To prohibit what they think pernicious, is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction.

John Stuart Mill

Incumbent Quotes #946682
#63. It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.

Thomas Paine

Incumbent Quotes #947095
#64. A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

Alice Stone Blackwell

Incumbent Quotes #964341
#65. If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday, it will mark the success of one of the most deeply cynical political campaigns in American history. It is hard to beat an incumbent no matter the economic climate.

Juan Williams

Incumbent Quotes #970415
#66. One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

William Carey

Incumbent Quotes #975184
#67. It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole.

Arthur Levitt

Incumbent Quotes #1013830
#68. Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.

Ron Fournier

Incumbent Quotes #1015732
#69. To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Baruch Spinoza

Incumbent Quotes #1073530
#70. At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.

Joseph Rotblat

Incumbent Quotes #1085516
#71. But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

Condoleezza Rice

Incumbent Quotes #1088273
#72. In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.

Michael Crichton

Incumbent Quotes #1095090
#73. God Most High has said, "Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?" ... Know, O man, that the covenant of servanthood is incumbent upon you, and that the covenant of Lordship is incumbent upon His magnanimity, as He Most High has said, " ... and fulfill your covenant, I shall fulfill My covenant."

Ibn Ata Allah

Incumbent Quotes #1131431
#74. Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

Marc Andreesen

Incumbent Quotes #1132593
#75. To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Incumbent Quotes #1139683
#76. [Her message to women and girls of the world] You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And it is incumbent upon you to use that power
not only for yourself, but for everyone else around you.

Jennifer Beals

Incumbent Quotes #1191198
#77. I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

Natascha McElhone

Incumbent Quotes #1196985
#78. It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.

Frederick Lenz

Incumbent Quotes #1224472
#79. The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.

Andrew Bacevich

Incumbent Quotes #1236779
#80. Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Kahlil Gibran

Incumbent Quotes #1262091
#81. As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

Monty Hall

Incumbent Quotes #1284216
#82. As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Samuel Johnson

Incumbent Quotes #1319201
#83. What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.

Beth Brooke

Incumbent Quotes #1322967
#84. It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.

Kurt Vonnegut

Incumbent Quotes #1355329
#85. Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

Alexander Lukashenko

Incumbent Quotes #1388345
#86. Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

Mark Zuckerberg

Incumbent Quotes #1391697
#87. You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices ... because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.

Aaron Levie

Incumbent Quotes #1394933
#88. In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of people who are even less inclined to or capable of crafting compromise or solutions to pressing problems.

Thomas E. Mann

Incumbent Quotes #1444420
#89. If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.

Marco Rubio

Incumbent Quotes #1472614
#90. France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Incumbent Quotes #1473936
#91. I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.

James Knowles III

Incumbent Quotes #1480983
#92. It's just a lot safer to be an incumbent. So I think they have used the campaign finance reforms. They have passed laws that will help themselves stay in office. And I think that's one of the flaws that we do have in the system.

David Brooks

Incumbent Quotes #1486647
#93. God Almighty (swt) says: My love is incumbent for those who love each other for Me; who sit together for Me; who visit each other for Me; and who spend on each other for Me.

Muadh Ibn Jabal

Incumbent Quotes #1494309
#94. When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is to abandon rather than defend it - because the low end is the least profitable of their possible investments.

Clayton Christensen

Incumbent Quotes #1495979
#95. If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Alan Greenspan

Incumbent Quotes #1506821
#96. We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!

Erasmus Darwin

Incumbent Quotes #1508814
#97. As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein].

Bernie Sanders

Incumbent Quotes #1516035
#98. For an incumbent like a president, who's been in the news every day, their family, they're well known.

Mitt Romney

Incumbent Quotes #1539431
#99. It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Jay Samit

Incumbent Quotes #1543316
#100. If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.

Ted Cruz

Incumbent Quotes #1568795

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