Quotes About Leadership

My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.

The prime minister does not represent a particular political party; he is a representative of the whole country.

I've got to take responsibility and be a representative, not only for the Steelers but myself, my family. I've got to be smart.

When you are choosing an MP you need to choose the person who is pretty much likely to be the best representative for your area.

I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.

A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.

I shouldn't be the only African American Republican in the House of Representatives.

I have been blessed, working both at the local level on a community school board, the state assembly, four years in the state senate, and now almost 12 years in the House of Representatives.

As the highest-ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives and the mom of two daughters, I believe if we're serious as a nation about empowering every American to pursue his or her own dreams, then true cases of gender discrimination need to be confronted.

Our goal is to reaffirm that government by the people, speaking through their elected representatives, is the best way to keep us free and safe, protect our liberty, and make sure the promise of America exists for the next generation.

When I arrived at the Capitol in 2007 to take my oath as a new member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I had the privilege of filling the seat held for so long and so well by my friend Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress. I was so grateful to her.

People get Washington-ized a lot of times, being down there for awhile, and forget that we're called members of the House of Representatives because we're meant to represent people.

Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I'm honored to have served for 18 years as Arizona's 10th Senator - and for four terms in the House of Representatives before that.

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

It is our job, our responsibility as their representatives to help them. If we choose not to do that, we should not be their representatives.

I love serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, and I have especially enjoyed my time on the Ways and Means Committee.