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A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
What I'm hoping to do is see Democrats get elected. That's what I'm trying to contribute to.
President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.
When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.
The sheer scale at which one is able to create change as elected representatives is unmatched.
Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
People approach politicians with lot of hopes, particularly if they are elected representatives.
Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd.
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.
I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.
Starting in 2005, my first session in the legislature, my colleagues elected me to be Democratic whip.
No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It's how Obama gets elected, by the way.
America is Tiger Woods country for a reason, and she elected Barack Obama to punctuate this new reality.
You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.
I'm glad that Singaporeans were receptive to my message and have elected me to serve as their president.
We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.
The fact is, I was elected governor of the state of Missouri to bring more jobs to the state of Missouri.
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.
Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.
Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.
After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.
People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
If I am elected, God willing, to the United States Senate, I will be leading the charge for President Trump.
The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.
We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.
There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
What people have to understand is 'Billboard' is a magazine. They're like elected officials - they work for us.
We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.
All our elected representatives - and our government - have a responsibility to keep their people safe and well.
I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
Obama was elected on the shoulders of an incipient movement that he allowed to languish once he became president.
I wasn't elected to sugar coat things.I wasn't elected to tell stories and twist the stories around to the public.