A Quote by Matt Gonzalez

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

Matt Gonzalez

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Matt Gonzalez
American - Politician
Born: June 4, 1965

This idea that once you get into politics you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

Matt Gonzalez

I didn't set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office.

Bill de Blasio

I didnt set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office.

Bill de Blasio

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

It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.

Nina Turner

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

Herman Cain

I don't see myself in any way in elective office.

Condoleezza Rice

I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors and they don't deserve to hold elective office in this country.

Bill Press

It's hard to have both parents involved in elective office at the same time.

Kerry Kennedy

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

James L. Buckley

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

Donna Edwards

Elective office is one of many ways to serve the community and the country. It's one that I would consider at some point.

Kerry Kennedy

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.

Walter F. Mondale

The traditional path to making a name for yourself in our family is running for elective office, and I couldn't do that because, for one thing, all the really good offices were taken.