Elected Quotes

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.
Jack White

Music, Struggle, Black

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
George Clooney

Problem, Leader, Face

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.
Mike Huckabee

Life, Politics, School

Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.
Stockwell Day

Good, Government, Party

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
Harold H. Greene

Real, Words, Between

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.
John McCarthy

Society, Forget, Made

I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.
Tim Robbins

Play, Media, National

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.
Katherine Harris

Good, Best, Future

I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.
Scott Walker

Love, History, Kids

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Best, Office, Judgement

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
Warren Beatty

Opinion, Service, Able

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
Warren Farrell

Times, Three, Started

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Won, Unless, Worse

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
Joseph Ratzinger

Great, Simple, Humble

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
Nancy Reagan

Husband, Job, Her

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

Nature, Government, Understand

The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
Ed Koch

Thought, Vote, Fact

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.
Ed Koch

Care, Gay, Thought

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
Ed Koch

Thought, Vote, High

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.
Robert Caro

Power, Democracy, Anyone

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.
Robert Caro

Power, Democracy, Taught

It wouldn't kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything.
Sargent Shriver

C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected.
Chris Matthews

Time, Woman, Hard

It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.
Kevin Rudd

High, Australia, Prime

I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.
Kevin Rudd

Best, Crisis, Job

I conclude where I began, I was elected by the people of Australia to do a job. I was not elected by the factional leaders of Australia, of the Australian Labor Party to do a job - though they may be seeking to do a job on me, that's a separate matter. The challenge therefore is to honour the mandate given to me by the Australian people.
Kevin Rudd

Job, May, Challenge

I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.
Kevin Rudd

Government, Long, Saying

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
L. Neil Smith

Act, Media, Mass

For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
Gary Bauer

Faith, God, Talk

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
John O. Brennan

Important, American, While

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