Louise Mensch Quotes

[Referring to constituent services:] It's not the stuff that makes great news, but it's life and death to the people involved.

Democrats and all public servants just need to be honest. If we have schools that aren't working ... we need to face the facts and fix them.

I think all politics is local.

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

I’d love to say that politicians who lie should be indicted, but lying except under oath is not a crime—it’s a moral crime however.

Presidential politics has to be about truth telling and not pandering to the public.

There’s nothing wrong with a politician saying ‘I don’t know.’ Especially in a disaster there is nothing wrong with saying ‘I don’t know.’

The anticorruption campaign has created a lot of resentment and disincentives among public officials. Political discipline is to repress that resentment and to recreate an incentive for public service.

I ran for Congress in 1992, but I lost the election, and I really dropped the idea of ever serving in Congress. Eventually, I went home and became the mayor of my city, West Palm Beach. I was mayor for eight years.

I've been impressed with Rick Guzman and his commitment to the residents of Aurora since I first met him many years ago.

You can't just keep telling a story the same way over and over again. And I think it only helps the world to be more honest with young kids, to show them the world that they go walk outside and see.

Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired.

I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.

I have a clean image. I want to serve the people with humility and sincerity. Politicians have made use of peoples' votes but do not care for them.

It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same. That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn't live here, doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us.

We all need a government that solves our real problems and is not preoccupied with itself.

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.

My job is to make the case that I'll do the best job possible representing the people of Georgia's Sixth District, and what they want is representation that's focused on them and not this national partisan political circus.

Irish politicians are very accessible to the public, just the messenger boys for the local constituency.

Keeping government running really well, to me, is incredibly important.

My priority always has and will continue to be the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn who sent me to Congress to represent them. Their interests come before Washington, always.

Being an MP for a place you love is an extraordinary gift.

I want to be high-profile with the average Angeleno. I want to be out there holding office hours on a curb in Boyle Heights.

I've learned what Tip O'Neill meant when he said all politics is local. We need more people in Congress who have this experience, who have this boots-on-the-ground experience.