Elected Quotes

A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers

Money, Fool, Soon

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan

School, After, Secret

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke

Work, Government, Party

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.
Mitt Romney

Said, Around, Here

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.
Barack Obama

Cannot, President, Pretend

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.
Mitt Romney

Time, President, Follow

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
Clint Eastwood

Everybody, Nowadays, Promising

If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.
Mitt Romney

Work, Peace, Freedom

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.
Lily Tomlin

Country, Two, Honest

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

Good, Bad, Vote

If I am elected President, the Castro regime will have no reason to doubt our unwavering commitment to your cause. The regime will feel the full weight of American resolve.
Mitt Romney

Doubt, Reason, American

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.
Hillary Clinton

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
Hillary Clinton

Politics, Society, Husband

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
Ron Paul

War, Stop, Republican

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg

Through, Three, Talking

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.
George MacDonald

Nature, Politics, Men

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
Hillary Clinton

Trying, Until, Started

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg

Through, Talk, Throw

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Time, Dead

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S. Truman

Government, Political, May

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

Run, Serve, Nominated

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

Time, Forget, Next

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

Rather, Dog, Puppy

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.
George W. Bush

Everybody, Economic, Paid

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

Power, Give, President

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
Jamie Dimon

Read, Banks, Constantly

Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.
Paul Ryan

Crisis, Doubt, Give

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.
Jimmy Carter

Future, Country, Again

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

Here, Accident, Lady

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
Jimmy Carter

Peace, Try, Between

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