Top 203 Incumbent Quotes & Sayings

It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.

Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

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

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

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.

History has shown that challenging an incumbent president in the primary almost inevitably leads to defeat in the general election.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

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.

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.

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

It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.

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.

I was rowing the boat alone against a tide, running against an incumbent in 2013.

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.

The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

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.

If you take over a programme from a longstanding incumbent, not everyone's going to like it.

If the incumbent or his party has been discredited sufficiently, the challenger can run a successful, content-free campaign.

It is incumbent on the American people to work hand in hand with our veterans and streamline their transition back into the workforce.

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

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."

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.

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.

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

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.

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

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

It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

What's historically been referred to as 'gerrymandering' can more aptly be labeled an incumbent protection program.

Every re-election campaign is a referendum on the incumbent. Every. Single. One.

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.

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

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.

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.

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

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

With each door one women walks through it is incumbent to bring another woman through it with her.

It is incumbent on the media industry to discourage the glorification of media violence. It is also incumbent on consumers who love America to support this effort with selective patronage campaigns to encourage media that provides uplifting content and to boycott the worst offenders, if necessary.

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.

In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing about this election - is that once there's an incumbent running for reelection, most of the debate is about, "Has he [Barack Obama] done a good job?" Most of the judgment is, "Do you want to keep him or do you want to replace him?" Now, the opponent has to also be acceptable and has to make his own case.

It's incumbent upon all members of Congress to support legislation that keeps us safe at home and abroad.

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

President Obama ran a campaign in 2008 that was entirely expected from a non-incumbent. You promise, and you imply that if you elect me, everything good is going to happen.

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

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.

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

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.

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

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

It's incumbent on all of us to remember our history and not repeat our past sins.

As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag.

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.