Quotes About Elected officials

There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

Politicians and their relatives provide ample fodder as well, with elected officials who enter politics making between one hundred and two hundred thousand dollars a year, yet somehow amass wealth in the tens of millions over their tenure in government; aside from being humble public servants, apparently they are also astute investors. Politics is big business. Is

Take any form of growth, from high-end gated communities to low-end shopping centers, fix up a slick brochure filled with half-truths, label it "economic development" with the promise of tax revenue and jobs, and elected officials reached for their rubber stamps.

Then we caught the presidential debates. The people you folks elect are sort of scary.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

We campaign in poetry. But when we're elected we're forced to govern in prose.

The nation's leaders keep throwing out the word "Washington" as a vulgar abstraction. Nothing new here: the anti-Washington reflex in American politics has been honed for centuries, often by candidates who deride the capital as a swamp, only to settle into the place as if it were a soothing whirlpool bath once they get elected. The city exists to be condemned.

If you want to get the best people to run for office, weve got to make the rules easier, and simpler, and more understandable to get on the ballot.