High Office Quotes
On accountability, image, and the politics of high office.
These high office quotes focus heavily on accountability, arguing that people in powerful positions should answer for their actions like anyone else. One even recalls a judge sentenced after betraying the trust of a high office.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.
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In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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Other lines critique how high office is marketed, comparing candidate promotion to selling a box of breakfast cereal. A reference to a plain-spoken farmer-turned-president shows how ordinariness shapes perceptions of power.
