Do not be scared of the incumbents.

I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much innovation.

— Alexis Ohanian

Hundreds of these companies I've seen since the beginning stages - including Dropbox and Airbnb - one of them has actually been crushed by…

— Alexis Ohanian

Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes…

— George W. Bush

It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace…

— Bahá'u'lláh

And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood…

— Edward Said

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

— Thomas Hobbes

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological…

— Leonard Bernstein

Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No…

— Elie Wiesel

If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent…

— Simon Greenleaf

I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and…

— Thomas Pogge

One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention?…

— James Fallows

In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing…

— William Kristol

As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic…

— Bernie Sanders