Elected Quotes

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.

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

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote;

then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected.

The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected.

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

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.

I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

Violence has no constitutional sanction;

and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he the president is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature of things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres.

Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

Under our form of government, the source of authority is supposed to be We the people. Not the slaves of a King. Our elected leaders are supposed to be public servants and not private masters.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless.

To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

But there are advantages to being elected President.

The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected.

All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

The English people believes itself to be free;

it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

Write to your elected officials at least once a month.

Here's my promise to you: If you are consistent and do this, within three months the elected official will start calling you when [your] issue comes up and say, 'What do you think?'

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.

Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.

The people elected us to end the talk and to act decisively.