Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

We've elected a new leader, now let's heal.

Carlos Salinas

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

I think what the mayor has been able to do since June is focus on the record, why they elected him in the first place.

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

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

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.

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.

Gary Johnson

New Mexico is 2-to-1 Democrat. I got elected as a Republican. I think I did a great job of showing people that government doesn't have to spend money to make you happy, that government really needs to be providing a level playing field.

Gary Johnson

Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.

Gabrielle Giffords

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

the real power ... is not the elected authorities.

David Henry Hwang

There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we're not. Until we get to the point where James Earl Jones can play, say, George Washington, race matters. You wouldn't put a white actor in blackface to play Othello. You shouldn't have a white actor in what amounts to yellowface to play Asian.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

Charlie Pierce

In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them.

A. N. Wilson

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

Ismail Haniyeh

We were elected on a different political agenda.

Tab Ramos

When you get elected into the Hall of Fame, you get elected into a group of elite people who are the top of the top of the game at the professional level. Just to be standing here is an incredible honor for me.

Matt Gonzalez

When you have a democratically elected president of Iran you don't topple him for the Shah. You don't help topple Arbenz in Guatemala. You don't do what we did in Vietnam, etc.

Michelle Bachelet

Who would have said, 10, 15 years ago -- that a woman would be elected president!

Our issue is local control, local government by local elected people.

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.

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." ()

is doing what he was elected to do.