Eric Swalwell Quotes

People get Washington-ized a lot of times, being down there for awhile, and forget that we're called members of the House of Representatives because we're meant to represent people.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.

A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.

I'm honored to have served for 18 years as Arizona's 10th Senator - and for four terms in the House of Representatives before that.

Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

The House [of Representatives] has become not so much a legislative assembly as a huge panel from which committees are selected.

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

The representative assembly (House of Representatives) ... should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason, and act like them

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.

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.

We tend to think of the House as a less historically significant legislative body than the Senate. There are more representatives than there are senators, they're up for re-election every two years, and many come and go without having much of an impact.

Speaker Boehner has said many times that the House of Representatives is the closest institution to the people, and he recognizes that by empowering the members to have direct input into the process.

I enjoyed Parliament being a proper elected MP.

I used to say I represented 33% of the strategic reserve of physicists in Congress.

In Congress, I represent South Central Kansas, home to McConnell Air Force Base.

If I was the leader of the House of Representatives, the first thing I would do is I would put in a very clean bill on reapportionment. And I would put a very clean bill in that says that corporations are not people.

A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, 'As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, the Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office.'

It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.

When you're on the floor of the House of Representatives in the Democratic caucus, I like to say it feels like New Jersey. You have all different opinions, you have all different ideas.

One good outcome of elections is that fresh talent comes into the House of Commons.

My staff in Washington and in the state will be dedicated to constituent services and the best representation for our state.

From disaster relief to representation in Congress, the census plays an important role in protecting Iowa's future.

Connectivity is important to our state, including the opportunity for our citizens to see our legislative process at work.