Quotes about Elected
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.
- Benjamin Harrison
But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
- Ben Carson
I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.
- Ed Koch
The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
From the moment he'd been elected Speaker in January, John Boehner had insisted that House Republicans had every intention of following through on their campaign pledge to end what he called my "job-crushing spending binge of the last two years.
- Barack Obama
When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
- Jimmy Carter
Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.
- Eva Moskowitz
[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.
- Malcolm X