Elected Officials Quotes - Page 4

• Until we express ourselves, tell our elected officials what we expect from them, we can't expect them to do it on their own.

  Lori Silverbush

  Officials

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even CEOs police their own bureaucracy. Trump is not that. He does have more in common with these guys than most elected officials would have, particularly in the Obama administration. Obama didn't have anybody that'd ever worked in the private sector. All they had is a bunch of theoreticians who thought they were smarter than everybody that runs businesses in the private sector. And who knows what kind of pressure was brought to bear. Remember, Obama's agenda was one that was to be governed against the will of the people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, People, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.

  Gloria Allred

  Thinking, Wind, Majority

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• 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.

  Jim Hightower

  Years, Political, Arena

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1995.

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• The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and the Constitution spells out the procedures that must be taken to change it. Presidents cannot. Now, I know this is gonna shock many of you in the low-information community.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Community, President

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• The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Should Have, America

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• The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.

  John Sununu

  Integrity, Commitment, America

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• Rick Perry said Obama's suggestions for gun control disgust him. He said the real answer to this problem isn't laws, it's prayer. You know, i know you're not supposed to say this about elected officials, but I would pay to see Rick Perry defend himself against a school shooter with prayer.

  Bill Maher

  Prayer, Real, School

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• I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Gay, Support

  Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.223, Crown

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• I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.

  David Rockefeller

  Brother, Real, Power

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.329, Random House

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• Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.

  Chester Middlebrook Pierce

  Children, Father, School

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• History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, Voice, People

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• It ought to be done by the elected officials themselves because they have the credibility. And it's not like we aren't willing to help.

  Jon Kyl

  Done, Helping, Credibility

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• Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no common sense, and most never acknowledge that they were wrong.

  Lawrence Kudlow

  Real, Common Sense, Political

  "Barney Frank Comes Home to the Facts". Article by Larry Kudlow, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 21, 2010.

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• Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do elected officials turn the matter of taking a gun to church into a searing ideological question. But then, guns are not a religion in most countries.

  E. J. Dionne

  Country, Gun, Law

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• We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.

  Ted Nugent

  Nuts, Criminals, Behavior

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• I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

  Ross Perot

  Country, Believe, Politics

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• I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.

  Jan Brewer

  Cities, States, Boycott

  "Ariz. Governor to Obama, Napolitano: 'Do Your Job!'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Giving, Political

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• I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

  Jeb Bush

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

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• You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

  Karen Bass

  Office, Community, Standing Out

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• The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

  Lou Barletta

  America, Government, Towns

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• The public is tired of politicians professing certain beliefs and not acting on those beliefs. They want elected officials who have the moral courage to do what they will say they will do when they're running for election.

  Colonel Tom Parker

  Running, Tired, Acting

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• Donald Trump represents not the lobbyists, not the elected officials, not the establishment types. These are people that have nothing to do with government; they don't work there; they have much taken from them by government. They get very, very little of it back. And that is, I think, a good point in understanding Trump's popularity and who it is that's supporting him.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.

  Ronald Reagan

  Heart, Simple, Answers

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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