Constituents Quotes

• Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been one of my good friends in the House of Representatives. When she was brutally shot, Gabby was out doing what she loved to do - meeting with her constituents in a local setting, allowing people to speak to her directly about the issues that concerned them.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Friends
  • Shot
  • House of Representatives

• My focus is on my constituents.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Focus
  • Constituents

• We need to ensure that our voice is heard in the process because obviously we do have different views and we can't always accept fait d' accompli positions when they clearly don't reflect the view of our constituents.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Different
  • Voice
  • Process

• Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mankind
  • Constituents
  • General Idea

• 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.

  

  Collin Peterson
  • Republicans
  • Democrats
  • Urban

• The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district.

  

  Sandy Adams
  • Differences
  • Constituents
  • Endorsements

• We have worked hard together as a team to forge an agreement that is good for Delta and all of its constituents.

  

  Ed Bastian
  • Team
  • Worked
  • Constituents

• 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.

  

  Mike Rogers
  • Records
  • Consumers
  • Profit

• I have always found him to be a proud, honourable man, loyal, true, persevering, principled, caring and committed but tough and a person who lost friends easily. On behalf of the Government but in particular on behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party, I thank him for his distinguished years of service to his constituents and his country.

  

  Bertie Ahern
  • Friends
  • Proud
  • Service

• Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • Desire
  • Choices
  • Cables

• 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.

  

  Ezra G. Levin
  • Voice
  • Members of Congress
  • Reelected

• Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston.

  

  Georg Ernst Stahl
  • Instruments
  • Composition
  • Ingredients

• Tax reform has been a congressional priority for decades. It should be a bipartisan issue. I don't know why anyone in Congress would want their constituents to pay more.

  

  Matt Gaetz
  • Pay
  • Tax
  • Reform

• I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

  

  Steve Israel
  • Trying
  • Quitting
  • Constituents

• The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.

  

  Paul Di Filippo
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy
  • Acknowledged

• Our constituents deserve better than narrow-minded political games.

  

  Stephen Fincher
  • Political
  • Games
  • Deserve

• Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

  

  Steve Womack
  • Government
  • Accountable
  • Constituents

• Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Law
  • Bill
  • Constituents

• Between floor votes, hearings and meetings, a typical week in Washington is about 70 hours. And back in the district, it's about 60 hours, a lot of which is spent with constituents.

  

  Suzanne Bonamici
  • Hours
  • Meetings
  • District

• Part of my job is to advocate on my constituents' behalf to federal agencies who aren't always responsive.

  

  Steven Horsford
  • Job
  • Advocate
  • Constituents

• If you're a representative, you listen to your constituents, and then you go vote their conscience. You don't go vote your special interest buddies' interest and then come back and justify it.

  

  Paul Nehlen
  • Interest
  • Vote
  • Constituents

• Why should we make our constituents wait on job growth?

  

  Stephen Fincher
  • Job
  • Wait
  • Constituents

• I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Abilities
  • Constituents