Quotes About Elected

At one time in Montana, our elected officials were literally bought and owned by companies.

I have no illusions about our elected politicians. Pakistani democracy is anything but perfect.

I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.

As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

The public may want an elected opposition in Parliament, but we have to earn our place and work hard both in our Town Councils and in Parliament to retain the confidence and support of our people.

I enjoyed Parliament being a proper elected MP.

states. Direct election was introduced in 1979. The parliament is elected for a five-year term. There have thus been seven elections to the parliament (1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, and 2009). The number of MEPs elected from the

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.

Once the country voted for Brexit, I wanted the prime minister to make a success of it, but I knew that unpicking 45 years of entwinement with the E.U. would be impossible without our elected lawmakers being fully involved.

The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

As Philipose recalls this conversation of almost a decade ago, he's humbled to think that Joppan had been right: only a few years later, the Party won the majority of the seats in Kerala and formed the first democratically elected Communist government anywhere in the world.

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

I am honored to be elected by my peers to serve on the Board of the House Freedom Caucus as a freshman member of Congress. These men and women of faith serve with real conviction and are in Congress for the right reasons.

The opposition's role is meaningful when voters elect an opposition with an elected mandate to speak for Singaporeans.

I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.

I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I'd quit tomorrow. I'm not tall, dark and handsome. They don't vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can't get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.

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.

American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education.

I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.

When I was elected to Congress, this was the No. 1 issue businesses brought up. They said that if we want this country to succeed, we need immigration reform.

The beauty of our court system is that anybody can enter the court and sue. Uh, you have to be appointed to be in the Executive Branch. You have to be elected to be in the Legislative Branch, but anybody can go into court.