Elected Leaders Quotes

• Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

  Frank Dane

  Funny, Stupid People, Your Side

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• Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Trust, Country, Witty

  "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War that is Destroying America". Book by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel, 2007.

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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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• 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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• Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Time, Leader

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• We really are going to have to answer the cries of everyday women and men who are calling out for elected leaders to do something different. They want to be treated fairly and they need a political party who represents them.

  Nina Turner

  Party, Men, Leader

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our citizens, and not some foreign people who think that they have an interest in skewing our election in one direction or another.

  Samantha Power

  Thinking, One Direction, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Party, Leader, Today

  " Labour MPs prepare for leadership contest after Corbyn loses confidence vote" by Anushka Asthana, Rajeev Syal, Jessica Elgot, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I was elected leader of our party, for a new kind of politics, by 60% of Labour members and supporters. The need for that different approach now is greater than ever.

  Wes Streeting

  Party, Leader, Different

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We need to stand together. Since I was elected leader of our party, we have repeatedly defeated the government over its attacks on living standards.

  Wes Streeting

  Party, Government, Leader

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• This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  Leader, Sound, Analysis

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• You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.

  Ron Fournier

  Home, Leader, Political

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• I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.

  Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

  Leader, Psychological, Habit

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It's people, thousands of people, who are feeling, sensing the sense of urgency, fearing for the president of their life - the life of their president, trying to protect their democratic choice, because Arafat is the elected leader of the Palestinian people.

  Saeb Erekat

  Army, Air, People

  Interview With Mark Davis, www.sbs.com.au. August 23, 2013.

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• I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nations faith in its elected leaders.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Believe, Keys, Government

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• Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be - given the devastation it is wreaking - should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Cities, Weather

  "Bloomberg Cites Climate Change As He Endorses Obama" by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. November 1, 2012.

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• As elected leaders, we must each recommit ourselves to work together toward putting our country on a prosperous, sustainable path and restoring Americas promise as a land of opportunity.

  Martha Roby

  Country, Opportunity, Land

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• No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in praying for our President, all of our elected leaders, and even for this unjust judge and all those who rule from the bench - that God would guide them and give them wisdom.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, Prayer, Giving

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• I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.

  Ted Cruz

  Lying, Light, Doors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.

  Ed Buckner

  Religious, Rights, People

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• Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Lying, Hero, Men

  Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Winning, Leader, Democracy

  "Giuliani: Too much stress on two-state plan". www.jta.org. August 15, 2007.

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• Peter Joseph is asking the questions and proposing the possible solutions that we should be demanding from the elected leaders of this crazy world.
  His brilliant analysis of this ridiculous system we're operating under is one of the most important voices for change in this generation.

  Joe Rogan

  Crazy, Voice, Leader

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• The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

  Jay Nixon

  School, People, Support

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