I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.
Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.
The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
I was an officer in my student council.
I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
I joined the Lib Dem party at the Freshers' Fair at the London School of Economics.
I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.
I ran for president of the student council at my high school in Louisville. And ran against a guy who I thought was better known and little bit better student and managed to win.
I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.
Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
In many countries, schools are preparing students to participate in a democratic environment; yet schools themselves tend to be extremely autocratic, with all high-level decisions being made by adults.
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.
I wasn't the student body this, student body that. I was not much into running for office.
When I was in the 10th grade, I decided to run for a position on the student council with the campaign slogan 'Nuthin but a Boz thang,' so you might say joining Beats Music is like coming full circle.
My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.
