#elected

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#father #first #got #i #mother

Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again. ↗

— Thomas R. Marshall

#away #brothers #either #elected #ever

My goal was never to get re-elected. ↗

— Scott McCallum

#goal #never #re-elected

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#country #democratic #east #elected #election

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#elected #elected officials #elections #financing #going

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#drafted #elected #elections #government #iraqi

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#against #agenda #attempt #courts #culture

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected. ↗

— Alice Paul

#many #only #politicians #reelected #terms

If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#body #by the people #catastrophic #continue #elected

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#candidate #central #honoured #i #labour