Quotes of: Elect Keyword

Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.

Jim Cooper

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

David Novak

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

I think George Will is somebody that said recently that the Republicans will not lose, as a Republican, that the Republicans will not win the election. I think it was a terrible statement.

Donald Trump

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

Douglas Wilder

The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments.

Elliott Abrams

America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy - and wont cross the street to vote in a national election.

Bill Vaughn

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

Carla Bley

The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.

Gregory the Great

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

John Mahoney

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

Jean O'Leary

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

Jack Steinberger

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

James Woolsey

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

David Byrne

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

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

Jennifer Granholm

The way to get people civically engaged, not just during the election but throughout the year, is to tap into Facebook and let them do it with their friends.

Joe Green

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

James Hillman

They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.

John Hume

In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly.

Joe Klein