Elected Quotes

This elects me!

This is the only country in the world where a dictator will be allowed to sit among a democratically elected Congress. Everywhere else evil dictators go into exile.

I'm glad that Singaporeans were receptive to my message and have elected me to serve as their president.

The only test of electability is getting elected.

What matters most to me is doing what I was elected to do: help make life better for Oregonians and making America work for working Americans again.

Working class men and women deserve a champion. They're tired of people just telling them what they want to hear to get elected and they don't necessarily follow through.

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, exceeding that of the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary. Yet one would like to ask: According to what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the Communist East, a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has voted Western journalists into their positions of power, for how long a time, and with what prerogatives?

I warn young people that I interact with about this - you get into unrealistic expectations where you think that, "Oh, we're gonna eliminate racism like that. After Obama's elected how could there be any racism?".

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

I wasn't elected to avoid conflict. I was elected to represent the people of the 2nd District.

It's a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It's very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.

You want somebody in Congress representing you that on some level you feel has the same values you do and has the same priorities you do.

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

Anyone who is elected mayor of a place called "Sin City" is allowed to be a drunk.

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

Politicians love to beat up on guys that are seen to be public enemies, if you will. That's a great way to get elected.

We must be humble and listen to the people who elected us to lead.

Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about.

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

Senators, in the end, must be elected.