It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.
When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed - my job here will be done.
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America.
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.
Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.
'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
