If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable -… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
Do you think states' rights would have disappeared if state legislatures still elected our United States senators? Do you think our United… — Rob Woodall Copy Share Image
Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders… — Jim Hunt Copy Share Image
Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these… — Elizabeth Emken Copy Share Image
Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations. — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most,… — Nan Hayworth Copy Share Image
Too often, people get elected to a body, to any office, and the first thing they do is talk about how this… — Bob Wise Copy Share Image
When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's… — Kevin Yoder Copy Share Image
As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests. — Barbara Ann Radnofsky Copy Share Image
Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why… — David Novak Copy Share Image
In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
At the end of their first years, there are few people who would have predicted that Truman would be elected in 1948… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
To be sure, the Fair Tax is a big idea. However, I believe America was built on big ideas, and I was… — Rob Woodall Copy Share Image
No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
