Bret Hart Quotes

People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.

Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

Should Hillary Clinton run for president, voters who ignore the difference between the image she seeks to project and the reality will have only themselves to blame if her presidency turns into a disaster.

Is it not natural that a man who is a candidate for the favor of the people, and who is dependant on the suffrages of his fellow-citizens for the continuation of his public honors, should take care to inform himself of their dispositions and inclinations…? This dependant [creates] strong chords of sympathy between the Representative and the constituent.

A statesman is judged by results. If his policy fails he goes. It may be unfair, but there is a kind of rough justice about it.

When someone has to go back and work for a living under laws that they passed, they'd be more careful.

People hold elected officials to a higher ethical standard than most others.

You can’t get away from your votes. You can’t get away from your statements.

The Republican establishment will not help the President [Donald Trump] unless they are put on notice that there will be serious consequences if they do not support the President.

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

There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

The American public will give you an awful lot of slack on how you voted on one issue or another if they feel like you have a reason.

What message do we send to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away?

Elected officials have always been held to a higher standard, as we should be.

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

Our elected officials must understand that we, the American people, expect them to perform the duties of their office, even when that means working with other elected officials from different parties.

I'm running because Hoosiers deserve a senator who makes promises here in Indiana and then keeps them in Washington.

Only the public that elected me can dismiss me.

And I would like to have a good, productive relationship with members of the City Council, but I'm not going to allow them to undermine what the people's choice was and what the people want, which is change.

In GOP land, apologies and resignations are never enough.

The option to recall elected officials is an important one. Our representatives should always be mindful that they answer to their constituents, and if they act in malfeasance, their job may be on the line. But using the recall as a way to reverse the results of an election, or to hold a snap election, is simply undemocratic.

Mayors are accountable in the way a council is not. Who can name their local councillor?

The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be consistent, because they have the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box and they can't pass certain responsibilities on to civil society.