Elected Quotes
689 quotes by 520 authors
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No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting…
— Arlie Russell Hochschild
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
— Gary Johnson
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Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same…
— Gary Johnson
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I guess for every government - for many governments, they only have short vision, they only have three-year term or a four-year term. So they…
— Shi Zhengrong
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We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament,…
— Robert Webb
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John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be…
— Thomas Mallon
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I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
— Gabrielle Giffords
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Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
— Frank Dane
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The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.
— Lady Bird Johnson
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Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to…
— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
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When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.
— Ben Nelson
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Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
— Thomas R. Marshall
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We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
— Jalal Talabani
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I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their…
— Edith Rogers
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly…
— Major Owens
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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…
— Bill Scott
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I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and…
— Bill Joy
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A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of…
— Michael Kinsley
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I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that…
— James L. Buckley
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They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected…
— John Hume
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