Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.
And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.
I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.
I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we've got to blow the whistle.
Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.
We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.
The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.
I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.
We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.
In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.
In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we'd come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.
Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.
President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.
I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?'
It's a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It's very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it.
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
