#elected

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

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As a member of Congress, I believe it is the responsibility of those elected to represent the people at every level of government to ensure that our government works to ensure that every person who wants gainful employment has it. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#congress #elected #employment #ensure #every

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. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#anything #century #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people... who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in elected positions are the target. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#elected #people #positions #reason #serve

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#once #person #point #selected

Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public. ↗

— David Brock

#elected #elected officials #facto #fox #fox news

I'm not taking votes based on getting re-elected. ↗

— Jaime Herrera Buetler

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I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ↗

— Davy Crockett

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People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#assumption #bad #dealing #elected #i

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

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