Top 40 Elected Official Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Elected Official

#1. There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

John McCarthy

#2. The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

Frank Luntz

#3. I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.

Chris Gabrieli

#4. Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.

Adam McKay

#5. I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.

Jan Brewer

#6. Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

Jeb Bush

#7. I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.

Gloria Allred

#8. Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American.

Michael Nutter

#9. I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided.

Barack Obama

#10. I really didn't have any bad hitchhiking experiences. The only bad experiences were standing by the road for 10 hours. I never thought I'd get a ride with a ministers wife or a coalminer or a Republican elected official. It was all pleasant surprises. The only drag was the waiting.

John Waters

#11. Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

Jim Hightower

#12. Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look at the books, thought outside the box and proposed reforms.

Mike Quigley

#13. You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

Richard Trumka

#14. [A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.

Dick Gregory

#15. You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Karen Bass

#16. Al is, and always has been, the person who has been the candidate - the elected official. And he is the one who makes policy. As his wife, I have the wonderful opportunity to advocate for causes that I am passionate about, and I'm thankful for that.

Tipper Gore

#17. The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.

Bill O'Reilly

#18. When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

Mark Shields

#19. Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama.

Mimi Kennedy

#20. John Kasich is the most popular elected official in Ohio because he got things done.

Rob Portman

#21. If your life is bad because of an elected official, then you don't have a life.

Dave Ramsey

#22. It turns out that the governor of California has more authority to name appointees than any elected official in America except the president of the United States and the mayor of Chicago. The

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#23. I just think the mood of the country is now that people don't necessarily want an elected official to tell them how they ought to cast their vote. Matter of fact, it's the opposite, and they want to express themselves, and they have a right to, and I'll respect their choice.

John Cornyn

#24. You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant.

William J. Clinton

#25. The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work.

Arsenio Hall

#26. On the rocks of a bay so blue, it made her gray eyes glow.

A. LaFaye

#27. Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

Charles Darwin

#28. If I was on a 'Modern Family' kind of show, and they said, 'You have to say that the burger is $5.55; Have a good day!' ... I could do that!

Charlie Puth

#29. I think comfort can be a curse, an addiction that without warning or notice erodes hope.

Michael J. Sullivan

#30. If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?

Venita Ellick

#31. Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#32. I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

L. Neil Smith

#33. It's so nice to learn how
people react to my words.

Toba Beta

#34. The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.

Bellamy Young