Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
Thomas R. Marshall

One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
Michael Kinsley

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

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

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
Marian Wright Edelman

Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.
Bobby Jindal

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nader

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
Thomas E. Mann

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.
Scott Brown

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts.
Rod Parsley

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

The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.
Eric Cantor

The border sheriffs are locally elected. They're accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected.
John Culberson

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.
Charles Grassley

The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.
Fritz Sauckel

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

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

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

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
Claudia Johnson

The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
Kinky Friedman