If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.
They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 12, 45, 78!
There is parallels these two great men John McCain and Ted Kennedy of great impact in the Senate, you don`t agree with everything they did but certainly they had major impacts as senators. Their one major political failure not to be elected president but that didn`t stop them from having enormous impact and at roughly the same age, exactly the same disease. It`s kind of a poignant sad parallel.
When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.
Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery. ' Now is a good chance to get even with 'em, by electing 'em, just to prove what a liar they are.
Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary.
Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate elected who then brings the nation into war.
The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.
The popular choice is not elected as president.
If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.
Elected officials shouldn’t get to choose who gets to choose elected officials.
I'm not trying to say stop Donald Trump from being elected as his party's nominee. I'm saying that we have a responsibility to raise our voices, to say what he does as an American citizen is pretty destructive to the practice of goodhearted and conscientious politics.
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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.
To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
I feel like we put all the weight on the president, rather than distributing the weight to all of the elected officials.
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.