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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ray Shamie sold his Metal Bellows Corp. and took up office-seeking, rebuilding the Republican party in Massachusetts.

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

  • 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

  • It is not surprising that heirs should feel themselves to be above office-seeking.

    America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

  • 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

  • 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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