Elected Quotes - page 24

Amazon society, as mythology, history, and universal male nightmare, represents a culture in which women reign culturally supreme because of their gender. Amazon societies are also important because women were trained to be warriors-military and, presumably, in other ways as well. ... In Amazon societies, women were mothers and their society's only warriors; mothers and their society's only hunters; mothers and their society's only political and religious leaders. No division of labor based on sex seems to have existed in such societies. Although Amazon leaders existed and queens were elected, the societies seem to have been ... ones in which any woman could aspire to and achieve full human expression. In Amazon society, only men, when they were allowed to remain, were, in widely differing degrees, powerless and oppressed. (Phyllis Chesler)
If we continue to pardon or excuse the wrongdoers who commit acts of criminality in unsettling an elected government, we don't have any guarantee, do we, that this kind of exercise won't be repeated in the future. View quote
Graeme Leung
A fight back against this Government's policies will inevitably take place outside rather than inside Parliament. When I talk about 'extra-parliamentary action' there is a great outcry in the press and from leading Tories about my refusal to accept the democratic will of the people. I am not prepared to accept policies elected by a minority of the British electorate. I am not prepared quietly to accept the destruction of the coal industry, nor am I willing to see our social services decimated. This totally undemocratic Government can now easily push through whatever laws it chooses. Faced with possible parliamentary destruction of all that is good and compassionate in our society, extra-parliamentary action will be the only course open to the working class and the Labour movement. View quote
Arthur Scargill
I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs. View quote
Traian Basescu
Elected presidents are for countries. View quote
William Hague
I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know. View quote
Huston Smith
Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough. View quote
Jim Hightower
I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed. View quote
Joe Biden
I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. View quote
Hillary Clinton
You're not a leader if you haven't been elected. View quote
Hillary Clinton
The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate. (Hillary Clinton)
Kings are not elected. Gods are not elected. View quote
Cleopatra VII
I say we pardon the turkeys, but not our elected officials. View quote
Larisa Alexandrovna
The English people believes itself to be free it is gravely mistaken it is free only during election of members of parliament as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Southern political leaders were threatening to take their states out of the Union if a Republican president was elected on a platform restricting slavery. View quote
James M. McPherson
After all, the leaders of our country were not elected to be tittered at. Censors have to draw the line somewhere. For instance, we are allowed to say Ronald Reagan is a lousy actor, but we're not allowed to say he's a lousy governor – which is ridiculous. We know he's a good actor. And you can't say anything bad about President Johnston [sic], because you shouldn't insult the President. But if you compliment him, who will believe it? View quote
Pat Paulsen
If elected, I will win. View quote
Pat Paulsen
( I was the first, and to date, the only woman veteran ever elected, and there is a surprisingly low percentage of veterans in Parliament.) View quote
Judy LaMarsh
In a cruel irony, speculators - rather then elected politicians - are the shots on crisis management. In an absurd logic, those who foster financial turbulence have been invited by the G7 Finance ministers to identify policies which attenuate financial turbulence. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
If I'm elected, I may have to sign your death warrants. View quote
Claude Kirk
Hamas is a deeply nasty organisation, but it was democratically elected, and it is the only game in town. The boycotting of Hamas, including by our Government, has been a culpable error, from which dreadful consequences have followed. (Gerald Kaufman)
The American people have worked too hard, for too long, rebuilding from one crisis to see their elected officials cause another. View quote
Barack Obama
When I was in Cairo, shortly after I was elected President, I said that all governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion. View quote
Barack Obama
I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election. View quote
Fritz Sauckel
We need to continue to educate our elected officials and candidates for office on who we are, what we need and why they should stand in solidarity with us. View quote
Theresa Sparks