Constituents Quotes

• The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Liberty, Command

  Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

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• If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

  H. L. Mencken

  Political, Promise, Missionary

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• I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.

  Boss Tweed

  Care, Helping, Newspapers

  "Article IV: An Episode in Municipal Government" by Charles F. Wingate, The North American Review (p. 150), July 1875.

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• Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hopeful, Essentials, Human Life

  France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal, Benjamin Franklin (1837). “Animal Magnetism”, p.42

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• A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

  John Paul Stevens

  Believe, Law, Democracy

  Citizens United, Appellant v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310, 2010.

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• Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Heart, Character, Personality

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Its important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them.

  Devin Nunes

  The End Of The Day, Important, Honest

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• When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.

  Jane D. Hull

  Budgets

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• Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

  Mike Rogers

  Majority, Records, Gasoline

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• If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

  Melissa Bean

  Simple, Accountability, Want

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• As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

  Ron Wyden

  Oregon, Innovation, Use

  "We Can’t Take the Internet for Granted" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

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• Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.

  John Dewey

  Cities, Ideas, Immature

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Men, People

  Letter to Charles Yancey, 6 Jan. 1816

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• It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.

  Edmund Burke

  Communication, Wish, Attention

  Edmund Burke (2013). “A Letter to a Noble Lord and Other Writings”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

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• Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

  Charles Rangel

  People, Environment, Week

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• Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility the constituent has a problem, We're supposed to write back and say, 'Well I can't do anything' That's not what they elect you for.

  Bob Dole

  Responsibility, Writing, Problem

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• We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly from the constituents of water to the properties of water, as we are now able to deduce the operations of a watch from the form of its parts and the manner in which they are put together.

  Thomas Huxley

  Water, Together, Able

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.

  Bill Moyers

  Class, Political, Favors

  Source: progressive.org

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• There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Stronger, Would Be, Bihar

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Dream, Hard Work, Home

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• We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Past, Data, Long

  "Facebook has only men on its board of directors" by Carol Hymowitz, www.sfgate.com. February 5, 2012.

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

  David Miliband

  British Politics, Shields, Committed

  "Brothers who would be king". Interview With Vincent Moss, www.mirror.co.uk. August 29, 2010.

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• It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Believe, Fighting, Careers

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

  Jo Brand

  Jobs, Trying, Problem

  "Jo Brand: If the Tories are re-elected in 2015, it could be the end of the NHS". Interview with Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2013.

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• I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.

  Anthony Weiner

  Mistake, Apology, Wife

  "In Politics: Weiner's Fall And Bachmann's Rise". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 17, 2011.

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