Elected Quotes

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. (George Jean Nathan)
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. View quote
Lily Tomlin
Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then get elected and prove it. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something? View quote
Grover Cleveland
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event. View quote
Benjamin Harrison
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. View quote
Frank Dane
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. View quote
Ronald Reagan
If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
The majority of Americans - the ones who never elected you - are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. (Michael Moore)
A fool and his money are soon elected. View quote
Will Rogers
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is. View quote
Dick Cheney
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Whether elected or appointed; He considers himself the Lord's annointed, And indeed the ointment lingers on him; So thick you can't get your fingers on him. View quote
Ogden Nash
If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function. View quote
Charles W. Pickering
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches. View quote
Harold H. Greene
I don't recall that I have said - and I don't think that I really feel - that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood - or even that it would be desirable - to have a single government elected by the people of the world. View quote
David Rockefeller
Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches. (O. Henry)
You know he's there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida. View quote
Michael Moore
I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
You know, I could run for governor and all this but I'm basically a media creation. I've never really done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil industry. But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office. View quote
George W. Bush
Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors. ... History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse. View quote
Rudy Giuliani