Quotes About Elected officials

Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

For all the scientific evidence we were amassing, many people, both in government and in the citizenry our elected officials are supposedly beholden to, were still refusing to accept that anything out of the ordinary was happening. I wasn't the only voice screaming in the wilderness anymore - but still, not everyone heard the call. In those first few years, it was a long uphill battle to get people to recognize what was happening.

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

Here in Connecticut, we continue to take the necessary steps to save lives and protect loved ones and we are calling on all elected officials to do the same.

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.

It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.

We must not allow our elected officials -many beholden to unaccountable corporate elites- to bastardize and pulverize the precious word democracy as they fail to respect and act on genuine democratic ideals

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

got news for you, honey," Margo said. "This is the United States you're talking about, not China or Russia. Our intelligence agencies don't undermine our elected officials or our democracy.

Americans, unlike their elected politicians, are not stupid.

It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure.

There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.

Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

But nothing works better, nor reeks more strongly of racist and crass political opportunism, than the attacks leveled against immigrants of color, mostly from Mexico and other points in the global South, and the way so many within the chattering class (and even the ranks of elected officials) hope to whip us into hysteria about their presence within our shores.

What should have been shattering news—a Klansman dictating orders to elected officials and leaders of the dominant political party—barely caused a stir.

The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.

People want our elected officials to govern and for government to work.

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.