Quotes About Politics

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

Most people are generally satisfied with their representative.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.

That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

First and foremost, the duty of a representative is to represent the interests of his constituents.

As your representative, you can count on me to fight back against Washington, D.C.'s war on the west.

I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.

People do want to see themselves reflected. They'll never believe that Gwen Graham, Philip Levine, Chris King, or Jeff Greene will be a better representative of their interests than I will be.

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

The American experiment with representative democracy has been a great success, but we need to realize that it needs to be a genuine representative democracy where ordinary people have a vote, have a voice in choosing the candidates who represent them.

'Compromise' isn't supposed to be a dirty word. It is, in fact, how representative democracy works.

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.

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.

When you're on the floor of the House of Representatives in the Democratic caucus, I like to say it feels like New Jersey. You have all different opinions, you have all different ideas.

I work with the people in the piazza, where there is reality. Here in Parliament, often there is a mystification of reality. They are not representatives of the people. They represent themselves and their own interests.

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

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

I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.