Alexander Downer Quotes

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.

I was elected by the good people of Fort George for another five-year term, and I certainly intend to continue serving them in this, my seventh term as a member of the House of Representatives.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.

The House of Representatives is the center of power of the most powerful nation in the world.

I'm not a game-show contestant, I'm a U.S. senator.

It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.

I enjoyed Parliament being a proper elected MP.

I have been blessed, working both at the local level on a community school board, the state assembly, four years in the state senate, and now almost 12 years in the House of Representatives.

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be "Governor Bush." I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

No member ought to be compelled to go to another man, his equal and no more, a representative of a constituency no whit superior to his own, and ask for the poor privilege of calling his measure to the attention of the House.

No man ever exercised less influence in the Senate or the House of Representatives than he, but no man ever exercised more power as a political leader.

I don’t think you’d call the President political.

The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.

It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.

I served 14 years in the state legislature and served in both the minority and majority.

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

You can't go to Washington as a congressman and a senator and expect to make a difference all at once. You have to earn your way.

I never envisioned retiring out of the Congress.

I mean, I'm a political figure in Russia for more than 10 years... This is how people in Russia know me.