Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gore Vidal

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

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.

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

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.

Davy Crockett

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Ross Anderson

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

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.

Tony Tan

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

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

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