Anytime a member of Congress wants to travel abroad - which we do from time to time as part of our official duties - we are required to check with the House Committee on Ethics as to whether the trip follows the ethics rules by which federally elected officials are bound. Not so with Supreme Court justices.
I've always said that climate change is the defining issue of our generation. I've set out to hold candidates and elected officials accountable and to push our democracy to truly represent the interests of our kids.
It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure.
Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.
Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists.
If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.
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.
People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.
As candidates and elected officials, we have an obligation to be honest.
We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.
As a former Governor, and more importantly, as a father, I know all too well how protective elected officials are of the special relationships they have with their children.
We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.
If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say.
Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.
We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.
I ask you to find your voice and use it not only to choose your elected officials but to shape the issues that will shape our lives.
Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and we cannot enable misbehavior with a system that secretly settles with public funds.
