Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were an extremely young football team last year and played some freshmen, and we were hoping that would pay off. But we elected to just not talk a whole lot about last year.

Ronnie Musgrove

As a former Governor, and more importantly, as a father, I know all too well how protective elected officials are of the special relationships they have with their children.

Make sure you have the willpower of your elected officials and the people.

Ted Cruz

If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.

Lee Kuan Yew

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Ed Koch

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

Ed Koch

I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

Shashi Tharoor

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.

Somebody finally had the intelligent idea to remember that Harper isn't elected yet. That seemed to secure everybody. They quieted down and the subject hasn't come up again. Just that one shot.

Mike Quigley

Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look at the books, thought outside the box and proposed reforms.

She does not have to help that man get elected again, and that is very liberating. All first ladies have suffered under that. You know, the American people have all these expectations they voice on the first lady, in which she is supposed to be substantive, but not too substantive.

Alice Schwarzer

Sixty years after Hitler and 87 years after gaining the right for women to vote, the people may have elected her (Merkel), but the majority of the powerful are still far removed from conceding the highest office to a woman.

Since she got elected five years ago, and given their hectic schedules, it is more interesting how little there has been of this. She is the elected official. She makes the ultimate decisions.

She is the elected official. She makes the ultimate decisions.

Ross Anderson

The people must insist on the truth from our elected officials and our news media,

William Jones

Leon has influenced more lives, I think, than probably any single elected official in this region.

Franco Debono

The people are represented in Parliament. Therefore parliamentarians are not party delegates but representatives of the people elected on a party ticket, which is different.

Gore Vidal

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

Bob Wise

Too often, people get elected to a body, to any office, and the first thing they do is talk about how this year, it's going to be different.

Nancy Gibbs

I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.

Nan Hayworth

We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.

Abraham Lincoln

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

David Harsanyi

The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.

Tony Tan

I'm glad that Singaporeans were receptive to my message and have elected me to serve as their president.

David Harsanyi

Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.

Marie Wilson

Maybe we can actually use this show to get that tippy point over and have a woman elected to office.

Of course, because he was elected in October 2000 and in principle his mandate runs until 2005.

John McCarthy

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

There is a school of thought here that says we are too quick to undermine our elected leaders.

From this moment forward, Oscar Arias has been declared officially elected as president of Costa Rica.

I feel this is taking a step backwards. An employee of a person who is an elected official could have his opinion swayed.

He is what amounts to another union representative rather than representing the people who elected him.