After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.
Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do.
I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.
I've never sought elected office since I was a senior class president in high school.
I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.
In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off.
In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.
As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.
The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.
Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?
Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.
Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.
It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.
Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.
We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.
