Top 70 Elected Officials Quotes

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers – not governments – to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.

In the absolute majority of western democracies – elected officials are the ones who appoint the highest bench in the judicial system. There is no reason for us to lag behind.

People want our elected officials to govern and for government to work.

I ask you to find your voice and use it not only to choose your elected officials but to shape the issues that will shape our lives.

Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.

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.

Every year, at every level of government and in every corner of our nation, elected officials are confronted with difficult decisions. The right answers aren’t always obvious, and the effects aren’t always clear.

We have elected officials who say they’re going to run for office to serve the people. But in reality, they legislate themselves into wealth. They go into office, and after one, two terms, they’re worth millions upon millions of dollars, and that has to stop.

We know that greater participation in our democracy will make our government more responsible and make elected officials more representative of the people we serve. Making that participation easier while improving the integrity and security of our elections is something we should all be able to support.

Well, the elected officials in both parties are receiving campaign contributions and support through electioneering communications from groups that aren’t technically affiliated with the campaigns, but really are. That’s the off-the-books financing of electioneering communications that’s going on.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don’t look at it that way.

For our veterans to have to wait long periods of time to receive care is not only unacceptable to us, but to elected officials as well.

As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work – and much work needs to be done. Remembering our shared experiences with the people we represent makes us better and more accountable civil servants.

We think there’s nothing like sunlight to mobilize and energize citizens to demand change of their elected officials.

At one time in Montana, our elected officials were literally bought and owned by companies.

Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It’s important to remember: We need both wings to fly.

What people have to understand is ‘Billboard’ is a magazine. They’re like elected officials – they work for us.

While I am opposed to elected officials running for multiple offices simultaneously, or within several months of one another, I do not support a state law making it illegal.

Elected officials want to paint everyone with a broad brush. What they don’t get is that everyone pays bills. Liberal activists pay bills. Conservative activists pay bills. Independents pay bills.

We need elected officials who overcome partisan politics to really help people.

You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.

Our job as elected officials is to make sure those who have stepped up to defend our country have the resources they need to do their job.

I went to a school with the kids of judges and elected officials and architects, civil leaders, and influencers. And I felt very much a minority in every way. But it did expose me to incredible things.

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people – segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

Renewable energy, including from offshore wind, is crucial to the effort to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change, according to environmentalists and some elected officials.

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.

Labor Day is a time to recognize and reflect on that work, and for elected officials to recommit to the too-often ignored task of fighting to improve the lives of working families.

I’ve had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.

I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.

Elected officials have always been held to a higher standard, as we should be.

The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can’t write their own lines.

Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they’ve always been.

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.

Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation.

I’ve always said that climate change is the defining issue of our generation. I’ve set out to hold candidates and elected officials accountable and to push our democracy to truly represent the interests of our kids.

If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the days of political, special interest favors, and reduce wasteful spending.

Part of the problem you have is that you don’t have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They’ve built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.

The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who’ve been in Washington so long they’ve forgotten why they ran in the first place.

We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.

It is up to us to change laws on the books like ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote.

I think it’s incumbent upon elected officials to make sure that, if we’re going to demand more tax money from people, that we use it in a productive manner and not just say, ‘This is what we’re going to use it for,’ and then they find out that it was used for something else and sometimes something very frivolous.

For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation’s survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

You can go on for days naming former elected officials who are now in the private sector getting paid lots of money for speeches.

It’s unusual for elected officials to step outside of the box.

Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

We should all laugh more at our elected officials – it’s good for us and good for them.

I decided to run for office because I’ve seen that elected officials would rather let us suffer than put in the work to actually fight for us.

The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington – not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.

Our elected officials must understand that we, the American people, expect them to perform the duties of their office, even when that means working with other elected officials from different parties.

In votes cast, Latinos have increased to five million in the 1996 Presidential election, up from two million in the 1976 election. The number of Hispanic elected officials has not risen so fast.