Character Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I will support my party when they are right on an issue, but am not afraid to stand up to party bosses who are…

— Darlene Senger

My constituents are my employers - if I let them down I should be accountable to them.

— Caroline Lucas

I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games…

— Joe Lieberman

By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to…

— Justus von Liebig

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and…

— Jeff Flake

My focus is on my constituents.

— Randy Hultgren

I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents…

— William Lacy Clay, Jr

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…

— Anonymous

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for…

— Robert Toombs

I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make…

— Nick Xenophon

And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is…

— Barry Goldwater

One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to…

— Eric Swalwell

The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it…

— Colin Powell

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…

— Collin Peterson

Despite occasional policy differences between us, I have long respected Jim Jeffords' integrity, and his conscientious service to his constituents and to the nation.

— John McCain