Quotes About Being Elected

#1. Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being elected to public office. In America, we do it the other way around.

Argus Hamilton

#2. The White House is saying Donald Trump has 'zero percent chance' of being elected. Isn't that a little high?

David Letterman

#3. From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

Carl Albert

#4. Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.

Mike Quigley

#5. You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

Robert Caro

#6. I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform.

Brad Pitt

#7. Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#8. Being promoted to a top position in your organisation, or even being elected to public office, does not suddenly endow you with financial literacy, if you did not acquire and develop it, earlier in your life.

Strive Masiyiwa

#9. I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

Dennis Eckersley

#10. Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

Robert Caro

#11. Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

Lenny Kravitz

#12. There are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Ronald Reagan

#13. That tax relief can spur the economy and thereby benefit all Americans is something that Washington Democrats used to understand. President Kennedy, for example, aggressively cut taxes after being elected to stimulate the economy as a means of helping all Americans.

Mike Bouchard

#14. The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.

Randall Kennedy

#15. Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.

Birch Bayh

#16. Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to actually move to Chicago.

Jay Leno

#17. What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?

Grover Cleveland

#18. I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

Edward Brooke

#19. I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

Dee Dee Myers

#20. Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Abraham Lincoln

#21. There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had ... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts.

Chris Gabrieli

#22. Congratulations to Saddam Hussein on being elected to another seven-year term. It was very close. He received 99 percent of the vote, and one percent of the vote went for last-minute candidate Frank Lautenberg.

David Letterman

#23. Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Chris Chocola

#24. Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

George Will

#25. You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time

Barack Obama

#26. I'm not trying to say stop Donald Trump from being elected as his party's nominee. I'm saying that we have a responsibility to raise our voices, to say what he does as an American citizen is pretty destructive to the practice of goodhearted and conscientious politics.

Michael Eric Dyson

#27. Somebody asked me, 'Why do people like vampires so much?' This was right after Obama had been elected and I said, 'Because we just spent eight years being sucked dry by one.'

Alan Ball

#28. The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#29. To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#30. I guess for every government - for many governments, they only have short vision, they only have three-year term or a four-year term. So they have to make sure they get enough support from the voter. So they probably have to deal with more short-term issues which are related to being re-elected.

Shi Zhengrong

#31. As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

Katherine Harris

#32. No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.

Nelson Rockefeller

#33. The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists.

Saul Bellow

#34. I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

Mary Robinson

#35. I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country.

George Osborne

#36. The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household.

Edwina Currie

#37. If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

Abraham Lincoln

#38. You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation's largest state.

David Axelrod

#39. All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.

Mark Spitz

#40. 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.

Rachel Maddow

#41. I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and we have to recognize how much that is being done for money. We have to find another way of measuring ourselves. And film is one of the few ways that might be done.

Edward Jay Epstein

#42. I have not yet elected to bestow the grace of my saliva upon another human being. I have never ... kissed anyone.

Laini Taylor

#43. If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

Woodrow Wilson

#44. Whatever it took to get elected president of the United States, I don't think being a complete and utter moron is one of those predicates.

James Woods

#45. This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

Michael Musto

#46. If we should tell ourselves the truth, all things being equal, President Jonathan will be re-elected with minimal stress, because of his sterling performance in the last six years.

Orji Uzor Kalu

#47. As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Dick Morris

#48. This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.

John Sarbanes

#49. I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.

Rush Limbaugh

#50. A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#51. the government was in danger of being overthrown. If it had succeeded, it would have earned the dubious distinction of being the very first armed takeover of an elected government in an ex-British colony in the West Indies.

MiddleRoad Publishers

#52. I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles.

Matt Salmon

#53. An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government.

George Papandreou

#54. I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

Barney Frank

#55. In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

Kevin Costner

#56. As far as I'm concerned, you're changing the fate of another human being. Maybe he isn't meant to be elected to office. Maybe humans deserve to live with electing the wrong person.

Evette Davis