This sense of entitlement is crucial to understanding why people misbehave in high office.
Paul, might have become a regular stop for ambitious young Democrats seeking high office.
Amazingly, Mr Kerik was twice cleared for high office by New York City's Department of Investigation.
Returning from serving as an army journalist, Gore entered newspapers before answering the call of high office.
"It's always a big deal when a woman is elected to high office, but this was a significant shift, " Maloney said.
And there are obviously other remarkably capable women in positions of high office in this administration and will continue to be.
Above all, the candidates must avoid blundering, making some stray error of fact or tone that makes them appear ineligible for high office.
They stress the lack of experience in high office of the would-be Socialist candidates, at a time when the euro-zone crisis is deepening.
To voters, his main virtue lay in never having held high office, which was taken as a sign that he was not corrupt.
And there has been progress that has been made there, as I mentioned earlier, the announcement of the high office of oversight giving executive decrees.
Under Mr Bush, working for Goldman Sachs, the greatest of Wall Street's then-great investment banks, seemed in itself to be a qualification for high office.
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His dad, Bob, still holds high office at the club, too.
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The new thinking is that the most useful thing ministers can do for emerging sectors is to use the pull and prestige of high office itself.
Mr Deri got a three-year jail sentence for bribery, but a decade has passed since then and he is eligible to run and hold high office again.
The paper describes him as the "antithesis of Vatican pomp", highlighting that he is "a man known for catching the bus and eschewing the luxuries of high office".
At a stroke, whole generations of middle-aged Tory men can feel dreams of high office evaporating like the fumes from a consoling tumbler (or two) of late-night Scotch.
Or he could try to woo Mr Makoni, if he came third, back into the ZANU-PF fold with a promise of forgiveness and high office, though that now seems implausible.
By comparison, his Conservative challenger, Stephen Harper, is an unknown quantity, untested by previous high office and until recently written off as a not especially competent leader of the opposition.
Bright was a political force, but he never held high office, so he was rather like a midfielder who forever sets up the strikers: assists don't count as much as goals.
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Even after the supreme court finally set a date for the trial earlier this year (holders of high office in Brazil cannot be tried for crimes in lower courts), few expected much from it.
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio had a reputation as a humble pastor who even in high office commuted to work by bus, lived in an apartment rather than an apostolic palace and cooked his own meals.
Sheila Coronel, of the Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism, argues that it is almost impossible for independent candidates to break the political dynasties' lock on high office, thanks to the costliness of running a credible campaign.
They included in particular the supporters of European federation, to which she was implacably opposed, their numbers swollen by grandees who had held high office under her but whom she had dumped without ceremony as ministerial failures.
For many in the Governor's camp, the race is about restoring a moral bearing to politics, a return to the days when people (named Bush) who were groomed for high office brought credit and honor to it.
At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.
According to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, there are more women running for high office this year that there have ever been before, and nearly twice as many women running as Republicans than there were just two years ago.
Yet a similar mood of alarm attended the departure of Yegor Gaidar from high political office.
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