Quotes About Politics

I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

The right can distort anything it wants.

Despite my work, I know some in politics will never support me. I see them distort my record.

When it comes to fighting for progress in Boston, there's a long history of people in power trying to label advocacy and hard work as being political in order to avoid accountability and distract from community demands for better leadership.

Let's cause some senators distress.

I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

I like having a battleground district because I think that's real-life America.

PACs don't vote in the district; people do.

When I make decisions, it's not based on what the Republican Party does. I'm elected by the 9th congressional district.

I would never tell the president of the United States not to come to my district.

Politicians always do a two-step, depending on what their district politics looks like.

A lot of times, you're just so determined to get everything that you're going to vote 'no' if you don't. But if you get 75% of what you want and what your district wants, you should be satisfied with that.

Sen. Clinton carried our district, and it is difficult to vote against your constituents.

One of the rules of running for Congress is no matter where you go, you speak like you're speaking to the whole district.

The more conservative the district, the more conservative the member should be.

There's no way that I could be a congressman in a California district at 32.

The Islamization process in Arab countries is very disturbing.

I think if people thought we were just like the other parties and would ditch our policies at the first moment we thought we wouldn't get a majority, then we'd become just like all the other parties.

I don't like to really dive too deep into politics.

I represent a diverse constituency on the London/Essex border.

I'm in the most diverse Cabinet.

We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.