Office Tenure Quotes

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.

I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.

The African head of state should be in office for no more than 10 years

I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.

No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not.

I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

Few die and none resign. If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; those by resignation, none. Can any other mode that of removal be proposed? This is a painful office, but it is my duty and I meet it as such.

I do not desire to be Minister of England; but while I am Minister of England I will hold office by no servile tenure; I will hold office unshackled by any other obligation than that of consulting the public interests and providing for the public safety.

My goal was never to get re-elected.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit.

Once you're in the House for a few terms, it's hard to leave.

My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.

Wilbur Mills knows that he was chairman of Ways and Means before I got here and that he'll still be chairman after I've gone—and he knows I know it.

What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.

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.