#elected

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

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A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

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I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise. ↗

— Jim Knight

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Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country. ↗

— William Kunstler

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In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College. ↗

— Martin Ryle

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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Mark Shields

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As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

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Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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