Class President Quotes

• Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

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  Kurt Vonnegut

  School   Nuts   Class  

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.102, Seven Stories Press

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• I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.

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  Dave Barry

  Horse   Book   School  

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• I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

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  Paul D. Boyer

  Senior   Team   Government  

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• I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

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  Kristin Lehman

  Class   President   Ninth Grade  

  "Q&A – Kristin Lehman (Gwen Eaton)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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• When I was a senior, I ran for class president. And I lost. One of my opponents even told me I was "really stupid" if I thought a girl could be elected president.

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  Hillary Clinton

  Girl   Senior   Stupid  

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

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  Lois Lowry

  Children   Team   Valentine  

  2215

• I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

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  Donna Edwards

  Class   Office   President  

  "What I've Learned: Representative Donna Edwards (D, Md.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.

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  Halle Berry

  Cheerleading   Editors   Class  

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• ...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting

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  Will Schwalbe

  Teacher   Cancer   Eye  

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• All the kids in the cast tell me they hated high school, but I had the best time. I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president—I even dated the homecoming queen.

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  Matthew Morrison

  Soccer   Queens   Kids  

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