Constituents Quotes

“You are a gutless son of-a bitch and you ought to resign the Presidency of the United States.” That’s about as mean as they get. Let’s use it.

I am going to Texas, and you can go to Hell!

Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.

Senator Schumer is a partisan.

Service is running for public office with the explicit and limited goal of serving your neighbors.

I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

We were all elected to try to improve the lives of our constituents.

We [politicians] have a bad habit of not putting ourselves in the place of those we are trying to represent, and whose needs we are supposed to be considering.

If elected, I will win.

I'm running because I think I'm the best candidate to take Jeff Sessions' place.

I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and I'm proud of the constituent service that we provide.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Our objectives are clear. Let's keep the government open and protect our constituents.

As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Legislating should be done in a manner that is understandable to the governed.

People must live with the laws that we make.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

Only the most politically secure congressmen can afford to offend constituents.

If elected, I shall consider the whole people of Sangamon my constituents, as well those that oppose as those that support me. While acting as their representative I shall be governed by their will on all subjects upon which I have the means of knowing what their will is.

When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take the same approach. I engage in deep deliberation and quiet contemplation. I wait to the last available minute and then I always vote with the losers. Because, my friend, the winners never remember and the losers never forget.

I thank the voters of Upstate N.Y. for this privilege to serve and pledge to continue to work tirelessly on their behalf in this final term.

Their ideas may contradict the sense of the whole people; hence the consequence that instructions are binding on the representative is of a doubtful, if not a dangerous nature.

We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.

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