Top 30 Seniority Quotes
#1. In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.
James Wolcott
#2. Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.
Mark Kostabi
#3. Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.
Robert Caro
#4. That's what I used to tell her. And she'd say it's not the age, it's the seniority."
"She loves you. A lot."
"Feeling's mutual. What're you smiling at?
Nora Roberts
#5. I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
Ben Affleck
#6. No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.
Bob Dole
#7. CNN has given me a platform to share my experiences. My Web site, YouTube Channel and Facebook page have exposed me to thousands of voters who share my concerns. My lack of seniority has not impeded my ability to communicate in any way.
Jason Chaffetz
#8. You do have a thousand years' seniority, after all."
"A thousand years' back pay," said a dock inspector, in an awed voice.
Ann Leckie
#9. We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
Nancy Pelosi
#10. I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.
Bob Dole
#11. Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension reform and seniority and tenure. I've done both - I've advocated for both. I've advocated for - seek for reform as well.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#12. In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
W. Richard Stevens
#13. If nobody is happy, then it's an equitable merger. - Maxim of airline seniority list arbitration
Robert Gandt
#14. I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E.B. White
#15. With respect to teachers' salaries ... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
Milton Friedman
#16. The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.
Gene Brown
#17. Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.
Robert A. Caro
#18. Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
Harry S. Truman
#19. Surgeon General's warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.
Bill Hicks
#20. I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
Meryl Streep
#21. Dad was in the United Auto Workers at work so seniority was real important in our house.
Christopher Paul Curtis
#22. Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.
Scott Walker
#23. It doesn't take a lot of seniority to vote the way you promised to vote.
Jason Chaffetz
#24. Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.
Chuck Todd
#25. Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#26. But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.
John Breaux
#27. I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.
Jim Webb
#28. If we're going to win this battle over fiscal responsibility, we need more of the people who vote right and fewer of those whose seniority is their only selling point.
Jason Chaffetz
#29. I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority.
John Berger
#30. The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?"
Peter R. Scholtes
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