When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we've got to blow the whistle. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies… — Ami Bera Copy Share Image
I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected. — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the… — George Allen Copy Share Image
If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God. — Mark Neumann Copy Share Image
Obama seems like he tries to talk everyone into what he believes - and that's part of why we elected him, because… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds,… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband. — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my… — Agnes Macphail Copy Share Image
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim… — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
I decided that I was going to be the Kennedy who makes her own name and finds her own job and works… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
