Incumbency Quotes:

It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.

- George W. Bush

topic: Running, June, Cameras, Incumbency, Swedish

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

source: "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

topic: Humor, Winning, Political, Incumbency

Every individual who participated in the redistricting process knew that incumbency protection was a critical factor in producing the bizarre lines. ... Many of the oddest twists and turns of the Texas districts would never have been created if the Legislature had not been so intent on protecting party and incumbents.

- John Paul Stevens

topic: Incumbency, Redistricting, Twists And Turns

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

topic: Wisdom, War, Political, Incumbency, Generation Gap

Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.

- Victor Turner

source: Victor Turner (1995). “The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure”, p.128, Transaction Publishers

topic: Men, Artist, People, Incumbency, Role Playing

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

- Carol Moseley Braun

topic: Thinking, Protection, Process, Incumbency