Incumbent Quotations

What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.

In 1996, President Clinton put together a detailed agenda called 'A Bridge to the 21st Century' that told voters why, in his words, 'rehire him' for another four years. That's the right way for an incumbent president to run for re-election.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

Incumbent Congresswoman Bustos has proven during her time in Washington that she doesn't understand or feel the pain of middle class families. We need a true representative fighting for us in Washington, and incumbent Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has refused to act.

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.

Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

For an incumbent like a president, who's been in the news every day, their family, they're well known.

We believe that the goodwill impairment is unsurprising given most of the other incumbent operators and wireless players have already taken these impairments for overpaying for acquisitions during the last 1990s.

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

We know foreign governments want our technology. We know they will go to all lengths to get it, ... It is incumbent upon us to have the best security practices, constantly to review them, learn the lessons from the past and make sure that it doesn't happen again.

When the incumbent mayor loses a primary by a 2-to-1 margin, it's a referendum on his performance. It has nothing to do with party loyalty. It's about value and judgment.

Luigi's chose to go ahead and do this on its own. I think it's incumbent upon those of us who don't smoke to support businesses that have gone smoke-free, whether they think they have to or they volunteered.

She uses every opportunity an incumbent has in a way I have not seen around here. When a problem comes up, like the (military-base closures) issue, she presents a positive image.

My first campaign was pretty ugly: the incumbent came after me hard with a lot of things that weren't true.

Next term, there would be an incumbent district attorney and most people like to serve at least two terms. Effectively, I'm taking myself out of the picture for eight years.

My understanding is that this contract has been funded for the current fiscal year, so this is legitimately before us, in my opinion. My concern about adding staff is that you're splitting the chain of command. If it's this board's position to reject this contract for the current fiscal year, then it's incumbent upon us to begin the process of adding to staff.

On the face of it, it seems odd to ask incumbent providers whether they should have competition. Their answer will always be 'no,

I was shocked when Harold told me about it. An incumbent shouldn't be able to make promises like that to try and win votes... To say he would make sure of R3m in grants and a French Test is ludicrous.

Bush has to give a compelling reason to voters to make a change. In times of peace and prosperity, the incumbent party has all the trump cards.

He is having trouble. You can't be a stealth challenger to an incumbent in a primary and expect to come out on top.

He's going to be running against a very popular figure, and obviously things were very different in 1990, where you had a very unpopular incumbent who was a member of the opposition party,

I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.

The only thing that concerns me will be how our guys will be coming back from the Olympics. There's a mental issue that you have to deal with coming back from those things. These guys expend so much of themselves at this event. It's such a pinnacle at two-thirds of the way through the season. I don't know how that magnitude of an event is going to affect them. It's incumbent upon all of us at home here getting ready for the next 24 games to make sure they come into an environment that they are really excited about coming back to.

It is clear that the incumbent president allowed the state authorities to be used in a manner which did not allow free and fair elections in Belarus.

Ladies and gentlemen, there are moments in the lives of nations and peoples when it is incumbent upon those known for their wisdom and clarity of vision to survey the problem, with all its complexities and vain memories, in a bold drive toward new ho

I think any incumbent has room to worry.

I think any time you take on an incumbent governor, you have to make the case for change, ... You'd have to give him the edge today, but four years ago, Roy Barnes had the edge.

I think Tom Davis is about as safe as an incumbent can be these days. Davis strikes a pretty good middle ground for his constituents.

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.

It is incumbent upon us to make every effort we can to improve the service we give to our members.

It is incumbent upon this commission to ensure that the Department of Defense's closure and realignment recommendations, especially those pertaining to the Air National Guard, do not undermine the unique mission responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security.

It is incumbent on us to take a serious look at the effect of this government spending on tuition rates.

It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole.

It is incumbent on us to develop an executable option, or face the risk of a less desirable option being imposed upon us,

It is incumbent on all Floridians, particularly those along the Gulf Coast, to pay heed and watch this storm over the next several days.

It is amazing that this park is 12, going on 13, years old because we truly believe it is still one of the premier sports facilities in the country. It's incumbent of this organization to do everything we can to keep it that way.

Lockyer is the incumbent five-eighth and captain and he hasn't done anything wrong in my eyes to lose his status,

I think if we override, it's incumbent on us to say where we're going to go. We can't keep throwing it back to him; that's irresponsible.

I think I have explained many times that there is no alternative to legislation if we want to implement this year's pay reduction with certainty. And I think it is only incumbent on the government to proceed with this piece of legislation,

I suppose one can try to search for logic and a rational behind why people choose to buy certain products over others. If people are buying more products that support Bush, it may either suggest more confidence in the incumbent over Kerry. On the other hand, if products supporting the opponent are selling better, it could be a sign of waning confidence in the incumbent.

It defeats the purpose of debates when the incumbent is unwilling to defend his record.

The amount of XML traffic will accelerate rapidly and it's incumbent that vendors like SAP build, buy or partner in order to satisfy the optimization needs for XML performance. SAP recognizes the value of SOA internally and in a sense they're eating their own dog food first before taking it out into the marketplace and that's case with many of the larger software vendors.

I would hope (the new GM) would take a look at the job Charlie did. We have a pretty good manager. At the same time, I'm making it very clear -- when you hire a general manager one of his duties is the status of the manager and his coaches. At the same time, we have an incumbent manager who has performed well.

You always have a harder time if you have an incumbent who's reasonably popular. Anybody challenging her was going to have both a name recognition and name ID problem.

We have a longtime incumbent who's well-embedded. My problem is, we've got a lot of problems in our culture, and nobody in Congress does anything about it.

We have an incumbent manager who has performed well,

When a big incumbent like Microsoft gets into the data protection game with a generally available product, the vendors that have had solutions in that space for a number of years are throwing their hats in the ring, ... Most of the data protection and backup software companies are announcing something next week that has Microsoft integration capabilities.

When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is to abandon rather than defend it - because the low end is the least profitable of their possible investments.

To beat an incumbent who's not in obvious trouble you need three things. You need to be financially competitive, a campaign staff that if not flawless is very good, and some luck. Till now she hasn't had any of the three.

We definitely will have a strong contender there. Right now it's an issue of whether we can handle a race against an incumbent war chest, but with the possibility there will be an open seat in the November 2006 election because Cannon might lose in a primary, there is unusual interest among potential candidates.

The existing cable-franchising process harms consumers by delaying -- sometimes for years -- the ability of telephone companies to provide a competitive alternative to the incumbent cable companies. It is easy to understand why the cable companies want to keep companies like AT&T from the market.

We're trying to stand up not only for First Amendment rights that have been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court but for regular people who want to challenge incumbent politicians and require reasonable resources to do that. This law makes it very difficult to unseat an incumbent--if you hit your limit you can't even drive yourself to a campaign event.

With 77 million Americans invested in mutual funds, it is incumbent upon the industry to make sure we are doing everything we can to protect shareholder interests,

We're training folks to take those jobs and incumbent employees.

We're not out to undo years and years of what we've done. But it's incumbent on us to be informed about successful programs.

Why do they have to be told it is wrong? Their duty is to the people who put them in office. Every candidate or incumbent should make a statement that our relationships with lobbyists will be at arm's length. This practice of accepting gifts has to stop.

We always stress to anybody that before you make any kind of a shot, it's incumbent upon the shooter to assess the situation and make sure it's a safe shot. Once you squeeze that trigger, you can't bring that shot back.

First, dot-coms turned into dot-bombs, and second, regulators didn't make it easy, ... In theory, there was no reason Utility.com could not have been wildly successful, but states adopted rules that protect the incumbent utilities which means new companies have no room in which to operate.

We're the largest investor-owned health-care company in the country. We feel like it's incumbent on us to participate.

While we all respect Sam Johnson for his military record and have empathy for his past sufferings, the incumbent has insulted the very man who got him out of the Hanoi Hilton by negatively comparing him to George Bush.

Theoretically, the incumbent wants the economic recovery to coincide with the election, but really it's a coincidence that those years tend to be positive. I think it's more that there's a good feeling overall during that year -- everyone is promised the world and no one says anything bad to upset the markets.

There could be just a lot back and forth and not a lot of net progress, ... and that wouldn't be all that unusual in an election year, particularly if the incumbent party does not get re-elected.

We lost in our battle to save Terri, but we believe it is incumbent on us to redirect our efforts to saving the lives of the innocent, who every day are being targeted by the euthanasia cult.

When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. First was the sheer depth of hostility towards the Tories in general. Second was the particular hostility towards Margaret Thatcher and her local ministerial spear-carrier, energy minister and incumbent MP of 13 years' standing, Hamish Gray.

We think it's incumbent on airports that don't have the room for these safety areas to at least put in one of these systems.

You have to remember that there was great dissatisfaction with the incumbent and we came and offered a clear choice.

You focus on the fact that there's been a challenge to the Governor within his own party, usually you don't see something like that. That's a sign of incumbent weakness.

Everyone, you know, admitted it, ... It was the redistricting, the way it was carved out. You couldn't really get an incumbent out of office.

Every incumbent president in the last 25 years has been behind the opposition in the latter part of his first term -- the sky is not falling.

At this point, it is incumbent upon Northwest management to not squander our significant sacrifices, but to intelligently pursue a course that enables us to emerge from bankruptcy as a proud and profitable airline.

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

Election results show incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko scored a decisive victory, securing 82.6 percent of the vote.

Flash also is the clear incumbent in phones and cameras and a host of other devices, but disk drives are beginning to be integrated into them as well.

The timing (of establishing the gold fund) couldn't be better as the recent gold price surge has caught the attention of investors, both incumbent and potential ones.

It would have put a seat held by an extremely safe incumbent into play.

The role of a town administrator is to provide factual information for elected policy makers to make rational and informed decisions. It is incumbent on the administrator to present the most accurate information.

The state used race not only to protect an incumbent but to give the false impression of Latino support for that incumbent.

The software industry, in some cases, has reached a tipping point where new features provide marginal value to small business users. While it is important to continue providing useful new features, it is equally important to improve ease-of-use, so users can get more value out of the products than they have been able to in the past. Small businesses simply don't have the time or resources to worry about their technology - it's incumbent on vendors to build products that help the bottom line, not hurt it.

Ted Koppel is a unique voice in American journalism. There's no point in trying to replace him as an individual. It's incumbent upon us to find a slightly different approach.

Running against an incumbent typically looks like this or a lot better for the incumbent. I'm not surprised or concerned at this point. This is six or seven months out.

Science and Nature should take the lead in the wake of this scandal. In a world where financial incentives can warp the scientific enterprise just as much as the lust for scientific prestige, it is incumbent that journal editors have strict conflict-of-interest disclosure policies. And, given the voluntary nature of disclosure, they should have teeth like a three-year ban on publishing for failing to disclose.

People tried to dismiss my candidacy when I ran for the United States Senate against an incumbent in 1992, and I had little money... And so I believe that so long as we have enough to keep going, to keep our operation going, to get to the point that people -- the people can speak, not just the money. The money primary is one thing, but the people's votes in the end will determine who wins,

Any incumbent running for re-election that needs our support will get it.

Australian people, God willing, have no problem with Islam. However, usually, Australian leaders do influence their people a lot to make enemy of Islam, especially the incumbent prime minister.

As long as you have an incumbent running, you're not going to have a competitive race.

This is an extraordinary performance for a new challenger going against a four-term incumbent who, by all accounts, should have a much stronger base of individual support going into an election year.

This is going to be a very expensive race between an incumbent and a quasi-incumbent.

This is the first time we're working together ... on interoperability. It really is incumbent upon us in the industry to work together on these interoperability issues.

This is the first time that an incumbent prime minister is declaring his intention of dismantling dozens of settlements, and nothing is happening. No demonstrations and protests, no rebellion within the party, and no media uproar.

Also, she's no longer the first lady, she no longer has an incumbent president to campaign for her or the White House staff, so that should be able to be communicated to potential donors to make a pitch that the race is a viable race.

A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.

The Republican incumbent starts her re-election year with commanding leads over either of her likely Democratic challengers - and even leads among Democrats.

As we move into a freer marketplace, it's incumbent upon us to show how crops can be used in a wider way,

It saddens us that the illegal surveillance which had Dr. King as a target has become a feature of the incumbent administration.

It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.