Constituency Interests Quotes

You don't say that for a senator to be a great senator he has to vote against his constituency.

Communities and constituencies do not always have aligned interests.

Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?

Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

It is a tenet of representative democracy that MPs are not delegates for their constituents. This means that their decisions and actions are ultimately governed by putting the best interests of all their constituency before all else.

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

The Members of the Parliament shall be bound solely by their own conscience and not by any directions given by their electors.

Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.