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Changing—or even challenging—the “establishment” political powers has been as daunting and nearly as risky for an office-seeking patriot as it was to be associated with the original “Sons of Liberty” in Colonial times.
The Mentality of Conservatism; The Conscience of America | RedState 2010
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They say that in cases like this, it takes months, sometimes years, for all the latent symptoms of office-seeking to go away, and even then you can never be sure.
My First Time: A political novice runs for office Bill Thomas 2010
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It's not too strange- these political wives tend to just as ambitious as their office-seeking husbands- or just as power-hungry to be less kind about it.
"The Excruciating Anguish of Elizabeth"... Ann Althouse 2008
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My sense of the universe is that all constitutional institutions are vulnerable to both the politics of extremism and the politics of bare office-seeking.
Balkinization 2006
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As I stated weeks ago I will lift no finger to help one single office-seeking politician.
OpEdNews - Diary: Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Patriotism 2007
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Ray Shamie sold his Metal Bellows Corp. and took up office-seeking, rebuilding the Republican party in Massachusetts.
Economic Principals David Warsh 1993
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My, how the disgruntled office-seeking rejects and wanna-bes Milk Dud, Roeser, Raush, Ibendull, Weigand, O'M... and their hacks come out from under their rocks at the mention of the name Topinka.
Question of the day 2005
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It is not surprising that heirs should feel themselves to be above office-seeking.
America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002
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If certain minds cannot understand the difference between patriotism, the highest civic virtue, and office-seeking, the lowest civil occupation, I pity them from the bottom of my heart.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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If certain minds cannot understand the difference between patriotism, the highest civic virtue, and office-seeking, the lowest civil occupation, I pity them from the bottom of my heart.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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