Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Rich Robinson

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

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.

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.

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

John Kasich

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

Lady Bird Johnson

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

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.

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.

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

William Jones

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

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.

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.

Ted Cruz

If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.

Tom Pappas

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

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.

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.