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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)] -- Edmund Burke
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)] -- Edmund Burke
The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents. -- James Madison
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents. -- Alan Siegel
Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents. -- Frank Quattrone
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken
God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union. -- Jefferson Davis
Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy. -- Tammy Baldwin
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. -- Boss Tweed
Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengthening families, increasing the minimum wage, and ensuring equal pay for equal work. -- Paul Tonko
Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline. -- Mike Rogers
If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take. -- Melissa Bean
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. -- Elizabeth Emken
As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world. -- Ron Wyden
Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration. -- Dana Rohrabacher
For years, members of Congress have heard from constituents who want them to protect the nation from crime, terrorism and intellectual property violation. They have not faced equally robust demands that online rights and freedoms be preserved. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents. -- Joseph P. Kennedy III
I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents. -- Francis Collins
I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma. -- Anthony Weiner
The U.S. Congress can do a lot to support America's workplaces and the family. By working together in a bipartisan fashion, we can ensure our constituents get jobs they need while helping employers make smart decisions about their workforce. -- Charles B. Rangel
For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue. -- Solomon Ortiz
Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep. -- John C. McGinley
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. -- Walter Lippmann
We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career. -- Caroline Kennedy
The principal reason for the universe's poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin at speeds thousands of times faster than a jet plane. But given their distance, you'd need the patience of Job to notice much change in their appearance or position. -- Seth Shostak
It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents - the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees - are all saying that Starbucks's best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back. -- Howard Schultz
Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore. -- Peter Welch
Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend. -- Wilbur Smith
My focus is on my constituents. -- Randy Hultgren
It's nice not to have to worry about constituents. -- George McGovern
We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy. -- Jeff Sessions
The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents. -- Joe Moore
It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests. -- Jay Inslee
When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents. -- Jane D. Hull
The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term. -- Edward Brooke
Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents. -- John Cornyn
Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents -- John Cornyn
My door remains always open to all constituents to discuss matters of concern to them. -- Peter Slipper
My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents. -- Ram Shriram
The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district. -- Sandy Adams
Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents. -- Jan Schakowsky
You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings. -- James M. Kouzes
To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out. -- Jo Brand
Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice. -- Melissa Bean
My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it. -- Geert Wilders
There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot. -- H. L. Mencken
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. -- Thomas Jefferson
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics. -- David Miliband
I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington. -- Steve Israel
It's important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them. -- Devin Nunes
Its important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them. -- Devin Nunes
I want to continue to do a good job for my constituents, my party doesn't want me to resign. -- Michel Martelly
As a policy maker, I have to stand up for the rights of all my constituents, regardless of their faith. -- Mike Quigley
My federal, state, and local experience will allow me the opportunity to effectively represent the constituents of the Fourth District. -- Gloria Negrete McLeod
My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory. -- Peter Roskam
I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that. -- Hillary Clinton
A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents. -- Melvin Laird
Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable. -- Steve Womack
Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents. -- Mel Martinez
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business. -- Alex Pareene
I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents. -- Ezra G. Levin
Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system. -- John Conyers
Despite occasional policy differences between us, I have long respected Jim Jeffords' integrity, and his conscientious service to his constituents and to the nation. -- John McCain
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents. -- Ezra Stiles
Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker. -- Ann Coulter
The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents. -- Tom DeLay
Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents. -- Charles Rangel
No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills. -- Melissa Bean
Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject. -- George Washington
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. -- Henry Laurens
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You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their constituents and others. -- Marco Rubio
As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast. -- Jo Bonner
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building. -- Todd Tiahrt
Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby. -- Chris Murphy
The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy. -- Eliot Engel
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen. -- Albert Claude
What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted. -- Bertrand Russell
Members of Congress care about reelection most of all. And that means they care about their constituents. So you have to be a constituent to make your voice heard. -- Ezra G. Levin
Perhaps they put party loyalty ahead of the welfare of their constituents, are afraid of crossing the president or are as stupid as Mr. Gruber thinks the American people are. -- Jack Kelly
A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media. -- Anthony Weiner
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. -- James Madison
Between floor votes, hearings and meetings, a typical week in Washington is about 70 hours. And back in the district, it's about 60 hours, a lot of which is spent with constituents. -- Suzanne Bonamici
The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a song, to make you or your constituents feel better. -- Amity Shlaes
You need to know the constituency you belong toand that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be journalism. -- Israelmore Ayivor
I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents who were there exercising their constitutional rights. -- William Lacy Clay, Jr.
I need to maintain a home in Derbyshire and in London to be able both to represent my constituents and to fulfil my responsibilities as an MP and as a minister. -- Geoff Hoon
I don't think there's much difference between the two parties. I think whatever their constituents at the moment want, that's what they believe. If their constituents changed, they would change overnight. -- Michael Bloomberg
Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort. -- Dennis Cardoza
You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism". -- Israelmore Ayivor
To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin. -- Michael Nutter
One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents. -- Eric Swalwell
I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents. -- Joe Lieberman
What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel. -- Cynthia McKinney
Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him. -- Bertrand Russell
I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position. -- Tim Scott
Our challenge, our opportunity is to pass common-sense solutions ... that repeal ObamaCare and replace it with patient-centered reforms that will help our constituents have better access to high-quality health care in America. -- John Boehner
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy. -- Robert Toombs
What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. -- Jay Griffiths
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To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh. -- Kathleen Parker
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government. -- Alexander Hamilton
My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District. -- Gabrielle Giffords
I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them. -- James L. Buckley

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