Quotes About Government

The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.

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

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.

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.

A major part of living in a representative form of government is giving citizens the right to choose and be treated equally.

There's a reason that you hear something like 90 percent of our country wants universal background checks, but we can't get it passed legislatively. If we had a true representative democracy, 90 percent of our elected officials would want universal background checks.

We know that greater participation in our democracy will make our government more responsible and make elected officials more representative of the people we serve. Making that participation easier while improving the integrity and security of our elections is something we should all be able to support.

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.

If our elected representatives want to further increase the gas tax, they should have to take a vote each time they do.

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.

Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's 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.

I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.

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.

The more we remove the need for individual members of Congress to raise private election funds, the more our representatives can focus on the things they were elected to do, and the more time they will have to cross party lines and erase the divisions that pollute our national dialogue.

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.

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.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

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.

The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.