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source: Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia, or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening; with the theory of draining morasses and with an improved construction of the drill plough”, p.560

topic: Past, Ideas, Iron, Incumbents, Interesting Ideas

In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.

- Goh Chok Tong

topic: Thinking, Creating, Play, Incumbents, Introducing New

I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and the incentives to bring change? The banks and other corporations love the system because it allows them to buy legislation that serves their own interests even at the expense of the vast majority of citizens. Incumbent politicians love the system because it allows them to raise millions of dollars toward defending their seats.

- Thomas Pogge

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Thinking, Majority, Dollars, Incumbents

In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.

- George Will

topic: Democracy, Voters, Protect, Incumbents, American Democracy

The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected. Of 435 members of the House of Representatives, only four incumbents lost to nonincumbents of the other party. In all, 96 percent of incumbents were re-elected. (It was only 90 percent in 1992 and 1982 after the previous reapportionments.)

- Dick Morris

topic: Party, House, Leaving, Incumbents, House Of Representatives

One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I said, whatever kind of career I had, it has served me well, but you do owe some people. And the people you owe are the folks who are going to come behind you. It's incumbent upon each watch â€” when you play your 10, 11 years and you're in your group â€” when you leave, I truly hope that you've done all you can possibly do to leave it a better place for the folks who come behind you.

- Earl Lloyd

topic: Kids, Men, Play, Incumbents

Mitt Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.

- William Kristol

source: "Trust the People" by William Kristol, www.weeklystandard.com. June 11, 2012.

topic: President, Needs, Sitting, Incumbents, Romney

Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Honor, Way, Should, Incumbents, Successors

Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light!

- Bahá'u'lláh

topic: Light, Land, Essence, Incumbents

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."

- Ibn Ata Allah

topic: Men, Covenant, Rewards, Incumbents, Servanthood

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.

- Joseph Rotblat

source: Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris

topic: Powerful, Destiny, Play, Incumbents, Science Research

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

- John Sentamu

topic: Children, Abuse, Church, Incumbents, Child Abuse

Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been insulted to be matched with a such an unworthy and frail rival. The Democrats, by contrast, got their lights punched out.

- Marc Cooper

topic: Real, Party, Light, Incumbents, Matched

George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House and to increase his own vote (by over 3.5 million) since Franklin D. Roosevelt, political genius of the 20th century, in 1936.

- Peggy Noonan

topic: House, Political, President, Incumbents

The case may very well be that Congress is willing to restrict campaign contributions because it has these privileges. It is true that incumbents normally get larger contributions than their challengers. The opponents at least get some money, but they do not have access to the perquisites of the incumbent.

- Gordon Tullock

source: "Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice".

topic: Campaigns, May, Opponents, Incumbents, Campaign Contributions

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

- Todd Gitlin

source: "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Trying, Limits, Incumbents

Whatever your eye falls on. For it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.

- Mary Rose O'Reilley

topic: Fall, Eye, Mind, Incumbents

When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.

- Glenn Greenwald

topic: Political, Demand, Doe, Incumbents

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.

- Roger Ailes

source: Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

topic: Running, People, Use, Incumbents

As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein].

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Party, Independent, Office, Incumbents, Jill Stein

Running for governor of Texas against a very popular governor [incumbent Ann Richards] was deemed to be risky. Everybody thought I would lose. As I put in my book, my mother said, "You're going to lose!"

- George W. Bush

source: Source: www.aarp.org

topic: Mother, Running, Book, Incumbents, Very Popular

I think that what is always true when you run against an incumbent president is, is that you end up talking more about that president's record than your vision for the future, and I think that the Democrats do have to present a proactive agenda and vision for the country and not simply run against something if they're going to be successful.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Running, Country, Successful, Incumbents

I've been on a faculty in a university, and I felt it was incumbent on me to deal with the Bible not as something I was attempting to convert people to, or to have them enter into my religious experience, but rather as an academic and scientific discipline.

- Hershel Shanks

source: Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

topic: Religious, Discipline, People, Incumbents

Hundreds of these companies I've seen since the beginning stages - including Dropbox and Airbnb - one of them has actually been crushed by an incumbent. The Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks, they might be someone to acquire you, which is not necessarily a bad position to be in.

- Alexis Ohanian

source: Source: www.fool.com

topic: Google, Might, Stage, Incumbents, Airbnb

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.

- William Kristol

source: Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

topic: Running, Jobs, Character, Incumbents, Reelection

I think the whole dynamic is different. Whereas in [Barack] Obama's case, even though there was no incumbent, he was able to run against eight years of Bush-Cheney and a Republican Congress, and everyone was tired of everything. He was able to benefit from that.

- William Kristol

source: Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

topic: Running, Tired, Thinking, Incumbents

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.

- Elayne Boosler

topic: Government, Voice, Citizens, Incumbents

And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood historically - without any sympathy - you are going to be thought of as unpatriotic, and you are going to be forbidden. It's very dangerous. It is precisely incumbent on every citizen to quite understand the world we're living in and the history we are a part of and we are forming as a superpower.

- Edward Said

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: Citizens, Entering, World, Incumbents, Unpatriotic

We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it's hard; it's painful. I struggle with despair all the time. But I'm not going to let it win. It is incumbent upon all of us that at the same time we recognize how dark the future is, we also recognize the absolute imperative of resistance in every form possible.

- Chris Hedges

source: Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

topic: Struggle, Dark, Winning, Incumbents

In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.

- Michael Crichton

source: Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

topic: Believe, Order, People, Incumbents, Consequences Of Our Actions

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

- Gloria Feldt

topic: Doors, Walks, One Woman, Incumbents

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

- Marc Andreessen

topic: Player, Networking, Selling, Incumbents

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.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Thinking, Maintaining, Levels, Incumbents, Human Dignity

It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

topic: Jobs, Class, President, Incumbents

I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned.

- Annie Lennox

topic: People, Democracy, Giants, Incumbents, Medical Treatment

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.

- James Fallows

topic: Incumbents, Hmmm, Rudy

READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States . . . .

- Franklin Pierce

topic: Government, Order, Mind, Incumbents

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