Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.
You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.
I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.
I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.
I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best.
The American people deserve to know that their elected leaders play by the exact same rules that they play by and that their lawmakers' only interest is what's best for the country, not their own financial gain.
I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.
Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.
I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.
We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.
