Quotes About Public

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

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.

Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from 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.

With every new class of representatives that comes to Congress, there is a greater recognition of the perils of private financing of campaigns. I believe that by pulling back the curtain on the daily pressures faced by members of Congress, we can show the public how critical this reform is to the salvation of our democracy.

The beauty of our democracy is that the final authority is not the president of the United States, but instead the American public through their duly elected representatives in the United States Congress.

Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

Despite the belief of many career bureaucrats that elected political leadership works for them, our system is built on the idea that the permanent bureaucracy, such as it exists, works for the elected leadership, which in turn works for and represents the American public.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

In democratic republics such as ours, citizens rely on public criticism of ideas and people to determine national policy.

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

Most people know we're kind of one of the only bands around right now that will admit that we're Republican.

Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate.

One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it.

Conventional wisdom holds that the public disproportionately blames Republicans for government shutdowns. The disproportionate election of Republicans to the U.S. Senate following the Republican-led shutdown of 2013 should have put that canard to rest.

If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.

Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.

I don't mind autograph hunters when I go down the fish and chip shop. As long as I get my chips.

In politics, you need to be able to live up to the hype.