Elected Officials Quotes

• You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

  Jamie Dimon

  Looks, Lobbying, Way

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• This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials.

  Michael Musto

  Commitment, Knowing, Elude You

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• The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

  Frank Luntz

  Principles, Different, Execution

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  It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

  George MacDonald

  Power, Men, People

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• Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

  George Jean Nathan

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Political

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• If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

  Rachel Maddow

  Accountability, Secret, Done

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• One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.

  Michael Kinsley

  Answers, Subsidies, Favors

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• Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Elderly, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Independence, Survival

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• My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.

  DeForest Soaries

  Believe, Heart, Officials

  "The Voice of Voting Reform". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 6, 2006.

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• Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Responsibility, Cities, Water

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• Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

  David Brock

  Past, Media, Organization

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• When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

  Mark Shields

  Sea, Causes, Size

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• The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

  Tim Bishop

  Islands, Years, Long

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• Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

  Evan Bayh

  Sports, Country, Baseball

  "Why I’m Leaving the Senate" by Evan Bayh, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 2010.

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• While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

  Boris Trajkovski

  Hymns, Differences, Important

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• When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

  Gwen Moore

  Children, Health, Funeral

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• The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

  Carl Lewis

  Games, People, Political

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• The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator’s and elected officials’ ability to solve problems.  It will likely take an economic catastrophe resulting in enormous human suffering to bring about true social change.

  Jacque Fresco

  Responsibility, Suffering, Majority

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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 you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.

  James L. Buckley

  Temptation, Important, Cases

  James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.246, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government Lies, Political, Deceit

  Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.119, Crown

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• If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.

  John Shelby Spong

  Yesterday, People, Giving

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• Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.

  Bobby Jindal

  Home, Office, Police

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• We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.

  George Carlin

  Officials, Deserve

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• Elected officials shouldn’t get to choose who gets to choose elected officials.

  Lewis Black

  Officials

  "Lewis Black Says F**k Voter Suppression In New ACLU Voting Rights Video" by Ed Mazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2014.

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