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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies. -- Carl Lewis
You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way. -- Jamie Dimon
If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system. -- John Shelby Spong
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public. -- Rachel Maddow
Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else. -- Bobby Jindal
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
Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question. -- Bernie Sanders
Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public. -- David Brock
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials. -- Evan Bayh
Elected officials shouldn't get to choose who gets to choose elected officials. -- Lewis Black
As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests. -- Barbara Ann Radnofsky
When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we've got to blow the whistle. -- Mark McKinnon
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration. -- Lou Barletta
Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions. -- Gloria Reuben
Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism. -- David Harsanyi
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention. -- Mark Shields
While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences. -- Boris Trajkovski
The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different. -- Frank Luntz
My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them. -- DeForest Soaries
The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers. -- Tim Bishop
In votes cast, Latinos have increased to five million in the 1996 Presidential election, up from two million in the 1976 election. The number of Hispanic elected officials has not risen so fast. -- Bill Dedman
For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times. -- Gary Bauer
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
I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them. -- James L. Buckley
Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly. -- Jim Hunt
Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents. -- Elizabeth Emken
One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this. -- Michael Kinsley
Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family. -- John Lewis
I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians. -- Paul Watson
It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote. -- Al Sharpton
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
Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens. -- Charles Koch
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials. -- Thomas Frank
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
This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials. -- Michael Musto
The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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
When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability. -- Chris Smith
No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials. -- George Carlin
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones -- Bob Riley
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones. -- Bob Riley
I think that the voters should choose the elected officials, not the elected officials choose the voters. -- Alan Grayson
We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials. -- Ted Nugent
I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country. -- Ross Perot
Republican voters are coalescing behind [Donald] Trump, but many Republican elected officials still say they can't support him. -- Mara Liasson
Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials. -- L. Neil Smith
When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same. -- Ann Kirkpatrick
I feel like we put all the weight on the president, rather than distributing the weight to all of the elected officials. -- Eric Andre
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
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines. -- David Harsanyi
Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles. -- Charles Hamilton Houston
If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for. -- Jim Cooper
All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close ever Sunday... by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of the people. -- Harold Lindsell
I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials. -- Dick Murphy
5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials. -- Karl Rove
Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America. -- Ted Cruz
A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials. -- Michael Kinsley
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
A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals, -- Christopher Dodd
Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican. -- Jeff Sessions
In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often. -- Paul Bloom
The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them. -- Michael Bloomberg
When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials. -- Charles Kennedy
Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are commonly chaired by the executives of large companies. -- Alfie Kohn
The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements. -- Bernie Sanders
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
whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party. -- Sergey Brin
Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's politics of personal destruction when it came to smearing elected officials. 'Fair game,' they said, even when crass and crude. That's just the way it is. -- Christine Pelosi
Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a European or Japanese-type energy tax not only unpassable but undiscussable? -- Donella Meadows
If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the days of political, special interest favors, and reduce wasteful spending. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business leaders - it's academics, religious leaders - they have dramatically different views on immigration. A -- Mark Krikorian

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