The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.
This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.
The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.
It'll be my luck that the worst candidate will pick up 'Fly Over States' as his election song. Then I'll be forever linked to that guy, whoever he is!
But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.
Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.
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.
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.
Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.
