Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rich Robinson

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

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

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

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.

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.

Phil Roe

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

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.

Charles Kennedy

When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials.

John Kasich

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

We think Mathieu is at the point where we think he's ready for the No. 1 role, ... We've liked him in the Montreal organization and traded for him. He elected to play in Manchester (AHL) during the lockout and had a great year.

was elected on a totally, totally different agenda.

Frederick Chiluba

We are still firmly in control, ... legal and democratically elected government.

The law is the law, and we need to implement it. We promise to dismantle all illegal outposts within a year of my being elected prime minister. All 105 outposts will be dismantled.

Another misconception is that we are elected officials, and we are the final decision-makers.

Don't think that we're not interested in what you have to say, because this is your road, ... It's not just our road and it's not just elected officials' road.

Ismail Haniyeh

This is an elected government and it must be given all the authorities and they should not be touched.

You're talking about a democratically elected Islamic government that is part of the wider Muslim Brotherhood network in the region.

Stuart Pearce

This must be the only industry in the world where you can have a total novice, who has not even been in management for one year, being touted for the top job in English football. Would we say the next prime minister is going to be someone who has not even been elected as an MP (lawmaker) yet? No.

Rob Schneider

There was no task that he wouldn't take on. When negotiations would roll around, people would make sure that Martin got elected to that committee. They wanted his experience, his intellect.

George Carlin

We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.

elected to make tough decisions, and this was one of them.

Elected officials who win trust, like Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings, get re-elected.

Silvio Berlusconi

elected by moderate voters who mandated these gentlemen to do the exact opposite of what they're now doing.

Bloomberg could not have been elected with the Independence Party,

P. J. O'Rourke

Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.

Rob Woodall

Do you think states' rights would have disappeared if state legislatures still elected our United States senators? Do you think our United States senators would be difficult to contact if they were named by our state legislatures?

Do you know one of the most interesting things is, when we lost office in '51 we did so on a higher vote that we'd been elected to in '45.

I've talked to people in all walks of life, from elected officials ... to the guy who repaired my shoes.

I've never sought elected office since I was a senior class president in high school.