A Quote by William Tecumseh Sherman

If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve. — © William Tecumseh Sherman
If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
If nominated, I shall run to Mexico. If elected, I shall fight extradition.
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.
When girls can get an education and women can work and run businesses or even serve as elected officials, the world benefits.
[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.
I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.
It wouldn't kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything.
We have elected officials who say they're going to run for office to serve the people. But in reality, they legislate themselves into wealth. They go into office, and after one, two terms, they're worth millions upon millions of dollars, and that has to stop.
Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times.
I am doubtful that there will be any sort of real coherence of Muslim societies into a single political system run by an elected or non-elected group of leaders.
I am honored to be elected by my peers to serve on the Board of the House Freedom Caucus as a freshman member of Congress. These men and women of faith serve with real conviction and are in Congress for the right reasons.
I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
When you nominate for a seat, the expectation is that you serve that district and serve that seat if you are elected.
Those who serve in our armed forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans. They enlist to serve their fellow citizens who express their will through elected representatives, not an unaccountable defense establishment.
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