Quotes 21 till 40 of 47.
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
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Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.
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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.
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Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.
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The captain thing was really an honor, and it was really flattering for me. It was really something that I didn't expect, and I would say that was the highlight of my career so far, being elected captain by my peers.
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The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.
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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.
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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
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The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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We could not guess how different from us they (extraterrestrials) might be. It was hard enough to guess the intentions of our elected representatives in Washington.
Contact (1985) Ch. 3 (p. 48) -
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
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Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.
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