The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.
You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.
No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.
In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!
The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain.
As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.
When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.
People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.
I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.
You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.
Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
