Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
Narendra Modi is a bubble. After elevation in his party, his first test was the Karnataka election. He failed miserably in that.
I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.
Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.
The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.
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.
In the 60's there was a look. In the 70's there was a look, and in the 80's. Now, it's a free-for-all.
