Todd Young Quotes

You can't assume anything in politics. That's why every Saturday I walk around my district. I talk to the longshoremen in Charlestown. I listen to the people in East Boston and their concern on the airport noise. I walk down to the Star Market in Porter Square, and people tell me about meat prices.

My door remains always open to all constituents to discuss matters of concern to them.

Let us give our Republic not the best possible laws but the best which they will bear.

Somebody is going to be making the laws for this entire country. It could be you. Will it be you?

Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.

We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that could change the lives of a great number of people or could change the way society is run or managed.

The job of an elected official is to communicate, to talk with constituents, to talk with the people of America, and I think Alexandria is excellent at doing that.

I want people to feel like they have access to Congress, that they have access to government.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

We have legislated to protect the public from tax rises and guarantee incomes for pensioners, so enshrining in law more protections for consumers, commuters and investors is possible. Enshrining these rights into law would mean that any future government which wanted to reverse this would have to go through the primary legislative process.

People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.

The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.

You see as mayors and local officials our jobs are designed so we have more in common with our constituents than Washington politicians can ever have.

In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.

Americans need to be engaged and invested in the legislative process that affects their daily lives, otherwise we are just democracy in name only.

I want the people of Wagga to know that my government will work hard across NSW, but especially in that region, to win back the trust that we have clearly lost.

I can be unhappy with the Congress, but I cannot give up on its ideology.

Government is the only industry in which we don't have a choice. If you live somewhere, you belong to that government. So we get bad service for high prices. This doesn't have to be.

I demonstrated through my work that I can rally other people to support legislation and get it passed.

I began to get calls from constituents, 'Do you think you can ever get on transportation?' So when there was a vacancy created, I worked very hard to get there.

We rely on the rule of law. I think we've lost touch with that concept in Washington.

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.

I think there is a lot of activism and energy from people all over America, and some of them are being represented by members that appear to be ignoring their constituents.

In the district I represent, I have to talk to everybody.