Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time LINING the POCKETS of ELECTED officials with POLITICAL contributions.

You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I THINK, a very DARK page in our history. And I don't want US to GO there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you ELECTED.

Barack Obama was elected during my second year of college, and SAVE for his skin color, he had much in common with Bill Clinton: Despite an unstable life with a single mother, aided by two LOVING grandparents, he had made in his adulthood a FAMILY life that seemed to embody my sense of the American ideal.

I flunked my exam for university two TIMES before I was ACCEPTED by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou TEACHERS University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's STUDENTS Federation.

Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be LYING, cheating, STEALING, and CORRUPTION. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the EARTH's resources for everyone's well-being.

What PEOPLE have to understand is 'Billboard' is a magazine. They're LIKE ELECTED officials - they work for us.

I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I REALIZED when we were elected VICE president that I had a PLATFORM and I KNEW I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls' EDUCATION.

I was in the CLASSROOM FOUR days after the inauguration, because I SAID to Joe when we got elected, 'Joe, I really want to continue to teach.' And he said, 'Absolutely. You should be doing what you LOVE.' Politics - that's Joe's LIFE, really, his love. But teaching is mine.

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.

I am confident that when the facts and POLICIES have been EXAMINED, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be ELECTED to lead our beloved country to a BETTER future.

I SUPPORT IMMEDIATE financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's GOING to be framed.

Mayors of New YORK have been elected not because of their party LABEL, but because of their philosophy and their APPROACH overall, and that has been SINCE time immemoriam in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a CERTAIN PRESSURE on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or IMMORAL way.

In 1954, Guatemala's deposed president, the democratically ELECTED Jacobo Arbenz, was FORCED to strip down to his underwear and photographed before being ALLOWED to LEAVE the COUNTRY.