Quotes About Constituents

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.

Until the 1980s, candidates spent a fraction of their time talking to donors; just a few weeks a year, a little more right before an election. True, they'd fund raise from the wealthy interests, as they do now, but it was a minuscule part of their job: policy and constituent services were the heart of the work.

In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website.

Senator Michael Bennet and members of the permanent political class have empowered President Obama's policies and their own agendas rather than the needs of constituents.

My European constituents are among the most politically engaged people I represent.

I have a very politically diverse district.

Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

But I don't feel that as a politician I'm hugely different. Obviously I have a different set of experiences that chime with experiences that many of my constituents have. I think I essentially still have the same set of values and the issues that are important to me don't seem to have changed hugely.

If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.

Most politicians keep close tabs on what's happening back home and work assiduously to keep lines of communications open with the political players in their states or districts.

Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

My constituents support Israel.

Throughout his career, Xavier Becerra has always fought to improve the lives of his constituents.

I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

What I try to do is tell my constituents that this is what I believe and this is why I made that vote. And I think that that makes more sense to people generally than trying to triangulate some political position.

My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.

My constituents say, 'Congressman, have you balanced the budget?' And I'm going to say, 'Well, we're working on it.' And they are going to say, 'Well, Congressman, did you get rid of Fannie and Freddie?' And I'm going to say, 'Well, we're working on it.'

Our constituents rightly hold us accountable for results.

I am very proud of who I am and what I've been able to do and accomplish for my constituents.

Why should we make our constituents wait on job growth?

Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.