Constituents Quotes
Constituents Quote of the day
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!
The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.
By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it.
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.
You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.
Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.
The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.
As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.
A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.
Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.
If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.
I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.
Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.
There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.
Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.
I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
Members of Congress care about reelection most of all. And that means they care about their constituents. So you have to be a constituent to make your voice heard.
A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.
I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.
Its important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them.
Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.
Perhaps they put party loyalty ahead of the welfare of their constituents, are afraid of crossing the president or are as stupid as Mr. Gruber thinks the American people are.
God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.
Business really has to work its way back. It has to re-earn the trust of its broad sets of constituents.
My door remains always open to all constituents to discuss matters of concern to them.
The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district.
Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.
Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.
I want to continue to do a good job for my constituents, my party doesn't want me to resign.
I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position.
Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.
Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.
Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker.
Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.
Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.
What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.
