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Quotes About Elected

No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.
~ Ron Paul
I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.
~ Jay Carney
We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
~ Nan Hayworth
I am proud of the fact the community elected a congressman who was born and raised in the community. I am trying my best to be successful for the community.
~ Tony Cardenas
Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.
~ William O. Douglas
The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
~ Michael Moore
Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.
~ Theresa May
Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.
~ John Anderson
Madurai is a city with a long political history. It was at the centre of the anti-Brahmin movement, the anti-Hindi movement, the Dravidian movement, and was a pro-LTTE city. Yet, this city has elected me, the very antithesis of all these movements.
~ Subramanian Swamy
Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd.
~ Geert Wilders
The point is, is that when you elect a politician, it has nothing to do with their personality. Politicians perform a function, a role in government. And the role of city government is not one that serves the people, unless the people make them do what the people want.
~ Boots Riley
I am an elected official, a politician who has been very successful in Washington, in city halls and state houses for my entire career. If somebody wants somebody who needs on-the-job training, then they will not be able to vote for me.
~ Michael Capuano
We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.
~ Christine Todd Whitman
I'm the elected sheriff, and I'm going to keep doing what the Constitution says I can do.
~ Joe Arpaio
In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.
~ Pope Francis
I was elected to solve problems, and I don't think it's conservative to have bad roads; I don't think it's conservative to have bad schools. I don't think it's conservative to have to go through budget crises every two years. So I'm taking the difficult issues straight on. That's what I was elected to do.
~ Brian Sandoval
Trump is the freely elected president of the U.S. and as such deserves respect.
~ Martin Schulz
We must make no secret of the fact that we are a revolutionary party , prepared to give leadership on the streets as well as in the elected chambers & that we are out for a revolutionary state
~ Seamus Costello
The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.
~ Kate Millett
Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.
~ Eva Moskowitz
When Corbyn was elected, I found there was a lot to welcome there.
~ Steve Hilton
We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.
~ Ismail Haniyeh