Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

David Harsanyi

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

Gore Vidal

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tony Tan

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michelle Bachelet

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

Transportation has been a top problem for a decade. It's finally getting traction with elected leaders.

When I first was elected into that office, I read that they were supposed to furnish me with a phone and an office.

Paul Ryan

When I first got elected, I was an unknown person from Janesville, Wisconsin. I'm not wealthy and I was able to do it, nonetheless. So I am living proof that an unknown, non-wealthy person can get elected to these seats.

Claire McCaskill

You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.

Whoever were to get elected in this rushed, expensive, 20- to 30-candidate special election, they're going to serve no time to speak of, and they're going to do nothing.

The President has been elected for a six-year term. The mandate was won fair and square in the election in 2004 and the mandate stays until 2010.

Phil Roe

I got elected to run the government more efficiently, lower taxes.

Kevin Hall

We have Virginians who, through their elected representatives and their judges and juries, support this as a matter of public policy in Virginia.

is doing what he was elected to do.

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