You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.
When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.
My love life is modeled after being muddled. I have a relationship like the one between you and your elected official—and your elected official and the lobbyists.
By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
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.
And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.
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.
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.
There are two chief responsibilities of the Secretary's office. One is to run the elections in the State of Connecticut to make sure they run fairly and efficiently because the Secretary is the chief election official. The Secretary of the State is a...
There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
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.
It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions.
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
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.
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.
The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.
I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.
I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.
