Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rich Robinson

That conceals from the public how interest groups are interacting with elected officials.

Our victory is as pure as a diamond. Kostunica is the elected president and we must persist in our resistance.

Our victory is as pure as a diamond, ... Kostunica is the elected president and we must persist in our resistance.

John Kasich

Republicans have gotten the sense that they're going to get elected by passing out money to people.

I will not let a bully, ... prevent me from doing the job the people of Michigan elected me to do.

Mike McCurry

I think there has to be, as we've just indicated, some arrangements for a transitional process that leads to a newly elected government." ()

Jim Nussle is doing the job he was elected to do by getting results on Iowa priorities.

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

Hamas is a terrorist organization, should disarm, and renounce violence. We will not talk to any elected officials who are members of a terrorist group.

Hamas is a terrorist organisation, should disarm, and renounce violence. We will not talk to any elected officials who are members of a terrorist group.

Lady Bird Johnson

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

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.

I think it's huge. We won the toss and elected to go into the wind in the first half so we could have it at our back in the second half.

Here you have an elected leader with skills and money who doesn't throw people in jail and pull out their fingernails. That's what makes him so dangerous.

Go home Jesse, ... We elected our school board, not Jesse Jackson.

If it's important to Americans, it's important to us. We are their elected officials, and we are responding swiftly to this matter.

Carlos Salinas

He was elected democratically, but hasn't given any positive results,

Davy Crockett

I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Tom Pappas

If they don't know what they are elected to do, then you have to replace them.

Jim Cooper

If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

He got elected on a very strong mandate for peace, and that is what he is working on.

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.

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.

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.

William Jones

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

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.