If the President [FDR] asked Congress to commit suicide tomorrow they'd do it.
Belonging to the Gang of Eight carries massive responsibility in representing all 435 members of the legislature in very sensitive national security exercises.
I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned.
I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.
No member shall be bound upon questions involving a construction of the Constitution of the United States or upon which he made contrary pledges to his constituents prior to his election or received contrary instructions by resolutions or platform from his nominating authority.
The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators.
I do not take my obligations as a senator lightly.
It doesn't take a lot of seniority to vote the way you promised to vote.
As representatives, we are accountable first not to our party, not to our leadership, not to the chief executive, but just to our constituents.
My constituents are my employers - if I let them down I should be accountable to them.
I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.
I agree with the Speaker and have concluded that my other activities do not permit me to devote the time that membership of the Lords properly requires.
