If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.
Quotes about elective (16 Quotes)
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
Behind this is the tension around the country about how to go about doing a Bible elective, and a lot is at stake.
We want to make clear to patients, in an elective (non-emergency surgery) setting, that it's OK to discuss all this beforehand and ask, 'What's that gonna cost me'
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?
Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.
Last year, in an English elective, we read 'Dante's Inferno'. I liked the depth of the different scenes in the book.
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.
Our attitude toward abortion ... is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God must come to this earth for a glorious purpose, and that individual identity began long before conception and will continue for all the eternities to come. We rely on the prophets of God who have told us that while there may be rare exceptions, the practice of elective abortion is fundamentally contrary to the Lords injunction, Thou shalt not ... kill, nor do anything like unto it.
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.
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed.
The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.
I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.