Top 352 Constituents Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on November 27, 2024.
Why should we make our constituents wait on job growth?
The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district.
My focus is on my constituents. — © Randy Hultgren
My focus is on my constituents.
I regularly help constituents who have had problems with the benefits system.
Mindfulness helps you to be where you are when you're there. When I'm interacting with constituents who are suffering, that matters.
It's one thing to answer to constituents. It's another thing to have professional disruptors show up at an event with the intent to derail so that you can't connect with your constituents.
My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.
The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.
I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.
For me, there's nothing more important than serving my constituents and winning the House.
I think, with Wi-Fi, we'll make L.A. a better place for our constituents.
What goes wrong in Washington, D.C. I think some senators and congressman and media people go to Washington, D.C., and they get sucked into this vortex and they lose touch with what's happening out in the rest of the country. That's the problem. If these elected officials refuse to lose touch with their constituents, if they spend more time outside D.C. than inside, if they spend more time talking to constituents rather than pandering to the D.C. elite press corps, I think they're safe.
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents. — © Alan Siegel
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.
Business really has to work its way back. It has to re-earn the trust of its broad sets of constituents.
Our constituents deserve better than narrow-minded political games.
I think I'm very knowledgeable about the issues of my constituents.
My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it.
Its important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them.
Having a diverse council is necessary in order to make sure that all constituents are represented well.
It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd.
Sen. Clinton carried our district, and it is difficult to vote against your constituents.
Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.
The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of cell division and growth, that they participate In the transmission of hereditary characters, and that they are important constituents of viruses. An understanding of the molecular structure of the nucleic acids should be of value In the effort to understand the fundamental phenomena of life.
Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.
My European constituents are among the most politically engaged people I represent.
I want to do work to ease the problems of my constituents.
MPs are paid to be representatives of their constituents. They have to do that job.
I had been interested in particle physics, which deals with the fundamental constituents of matter.
It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.
Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents
First and foremost, the duty of a representative is to represent the interests of his constituents.
We were all elected to try to improve the lives of our constituents.
Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.
God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.
When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.
As a policy maker, I have to stand up for the rights of all my constituents, regardless of their faith. — © Mike Quigley
As a policy maker, I have to stand up for the rights of all my constituents, regardless of their faith.
Social media is a powerful tool to connect constituents with the policy making process.
I will fight hard for my constituents in Congress as I have done in the state Senate.
I have never been driven by partisan politics, only a desire to better the lives of my constituents.
To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.
What I care most about is representing my constituents. If that ruffles a few feathers along the way, so be it.
Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.
I don't think there's much difference between the two parties. I think whatever their constituents at the moment want, that's what they believe. If their constituents changed, they would change overnight.
So [Republicans] packed all the Democrats into districts, very Democratic districts. What that's done is made our party urban, more liberal, and so those people are doing what their constituents want. But that's not what my constituents want.
The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.
The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term. — © Edward Brooke
The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
I do not wish harm on our constituents.
It's important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them.
I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.
It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.
Our constituents rightly hold us accountable for results.
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.
The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.
My constituents support Israel.
My door remains always open to all constituents to discuss matters of concern to them.
We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.
I vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.
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