A Quote by Ross Perot

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

Ross Perot

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Ross Perot
American - Businessman
June 27, 1930 - July 9, 2019

History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.

Chuck Hagel

Our elected officials must understand that we, the American people, expect them to perform the duties of their office, even when that means working with other elected officials from different parties.

Reid Hoffman

The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.

Michael Bloomberg

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

Our job as elected officials is to make sure those who have stepped up to defend our country have the resources they need to do their job.

Tommy Tuberville

Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on slavery. You would think 150 years later this had all become pretty historically incontestable. Yet millions continue to contest it in the face of history. Rather the denial of slavery and all its monstrous repercussions defines to one twin America what the country is and means, and therein is the DNA of those "alternative facts" that people believe when they can't stand to believe the truth.

Steve Erickson

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

Amy Klobuchar

I do believe that the majority of elected officials worked very hard and their heart is in the right place.

Mike Quigley

Elected officials shouldn’t get to choose who gets to choose elected officials.

Lewis Black

Renewable energy, including from offshore wind, is crucial to the effort to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change, according to environmentalists and some elected officials.

Tatiana Schlossberg

Kennedy believed in religious liberty and the separation of church and state. He did not believe in the right of elected officials to impose their religious views on others. He was the first Catholic ever elected president, and he spent much of the 1960 campaign defending his religion and assuring voters he would not take orders from the Vatican.

Jack Schlossberg

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Conrad Black

I think that the voters should choose the elected officials, not the elected officials choose the voters.

Alan Grayson

History teaches that the overwhelming majority of elected officials follow movement builders outside government when it comes to the new and risky... Once you recognize it, demand it and reward it, it will happen.