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We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.
It's unusual for elected officials to step outside of the box.
You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant.
We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.
As candidates and elected officials, we have an obligation to be honest.
Listening is something as elected officials, as leaders, we forget to do.
The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.
Elected officials need to stop with the name calling and hateful statements.
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
Elected officials have always been held to a higher standard, as we should be.
If your life is bad because of an elected official, then you don't have a life.
We need elected officials who overcome partisan politics to really help people.
Elected officials shouldn’t get to choose who gets to choose elected officials.
I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.
We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.
At one time in Montana, our elected officials were literally bought and owned by companies.
As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.
I do believe that the majority of elected officials worked very hard and their heart is in the right place.
We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.
What people have to understand is 'Billboard' is a magazine. They're like elected officials - they work for us.
We think there's nothing like sunlight to mobilize and energize citizens to demand change of their elected officials.
When you look at every government, they're our elected officials, and you have to have some form of respect for them.
Until we express ourselves, tell our elected officials what we expect from them, we can't expect them to do it on their own.
When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.
When girls can get an education and women can work and run businesses or even serve as elected officials, the world benefits.
The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
I ask you to find your voice and use it not only to choose your elected officials but to shape the issues that will shape our lives.
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we've got to blow the whistle.
As a member of Congress, I am part of a large group of elected officials who remain clear-eyed about the threat emanating from Tehran.
You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
For our veterans to have to wait long periods of time to receive care is not only unacceptable to us, but to elected officials as well.
Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions.
Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation.
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.
In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.
Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and we cannot enable misbehavior with a system that secretly settles with public funds.
If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.
It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure.
We need to ban outside income for elected officials. Transparency alone is not enough; it doesn't solve the problem of creating outside dependencies.
Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
I think Dr. King would be pleased to see the number of elected officials of color - African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and progressive whites.
I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.
In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often.
Most elected officials don't want you to know about the world of political fundraising because they fear that it paints an unflattering portrait of public life.
My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.
Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.