What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
The lesson from Hurricane Katrina was communication, communication, communication, .. Public safety has to be a priority. Then we can go to… — Mufi Hannemann Copy Share Image
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility the constituent has a problem, We're supposed to write back and… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of… — Nick Lampson Copy Share Image
There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Perhaps they put party loyalty ahead of the welfare of their constituents, are afraid of crossing the president or are as stupid… — Jack Kelly Copy Share Image
A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents -… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
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… — Boss Tweed Copy Share Image
As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
My goal is to reach out to communicate every day, whether I'm in Washington or in the congressional district. In Washington, the… — Glenn Thompson Copy Share Image
For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream.… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory. — Peter Roskam Copy Share Image
Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent… — Plato Copy Share Image
All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
