#elected officials

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

— Jamie Dimon

#constantly #elected #elected officials #inappropriate #lobbying

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

#being #commitment #elected #elected officials #elude

If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#begin #brighter #brighter future #elected #elected officials

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#case #conclude #constituents #deal #elected

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. ↗

— Bill Scott

#confrontation #constant #elected #elected officials #legislature

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american public #between #catching #elected #elected officials

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#asthma #attack #attended #child #children

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

— Amy Klobuchar

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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. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#because #believe #elected #elected officials #heart

The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place. ↗

— John Sununu

#america #bonds #borrowing #commitment #done