Constituents Quotes - Page 5

• I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.

  Joe Lieberman

  Thinking, Playing Games, People

  "For Joe Lieberman, Solutions To Political Ills Don't Involve Labels". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. October 12, 2015.

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• Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston.

  Georg Ernst Stahl

  Fire, Principles, Hot

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• There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his harangue until he has made all his useful suggestions about the 24 states of the Union, and especially the district he represents.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Home, Government, Suggestions

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• There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

  Charles Handy

  Government, Example, States

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• We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Opportunity, Media, Iraq

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• The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature; indeed, they almost seem to think that he has a power of attorney to represent each constituent, and they trust him to be as eager in their private interests as in those of the country.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Thinking, America

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• A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still. Auguste Comte picked a particularly unfortunate example.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Light, Technique

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

  Jefferson Davis

  Unions, Should, Being True

  Jefferson Davis (1859). “Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi: delivered during the summer of 1858”, p.3

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• My focus is on my constituents.

  Randy Hultgren

  Focus

  "The Morning After: Randy Hultgren Discusses His ‘No’ Vote on Debt Ceiling". Interview with Carol Felsenthal, www.chicagomag.com. August 2, 2011.

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• How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed
  to any other qualities than those of brutes.

  Aleister Crowley

  Class, Quality, Looks

  "Magick Without Tears". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 73, 1954.

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• Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Virtue, Symmetry

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

  John F. Kennedy

  Air, Order, Iron

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

  Walter Lippmann

  Successful, Insecure, Men

  "Essays in the Public Philosophy". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1955.

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• Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

  Carl Sagan

  Psychology, Independence, Metaphor

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, Goal

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• The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.

  Niels Bohr

  Believe, Science, Doubt

  Niels Bohr (1977). “The Periodic System (1920-1923)”, p.467, Elsevier

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• The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

  Charles Hodge

  Independent, Age, Church

  Charles HODGE (D.D., of Princeton, New Jersey.) (1855). “What is Presbyterianism? An Address”, p.68

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• Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

  Melissa Bean

  Choices, Desire, Cable Tv

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• I don't think there's much difference between the two parties. I think whatever their constituents at the moment want, that's what they believe. If their constituents changed, they would change overnight.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Party, Believe, Thinking

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Thinking, Splits, Serious

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.

  Chris Murphy

  Gun, Political, Republican

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters. And I think that home-state constituency issue is a pretty constant one. And I think the problem of extreme lobbying by the corporate sector, which runs about $30-to-$1 compared to everybody else in the world, and the constituent aspect combines to give those industries a consistent advantage.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Running, Country, Home

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• As a young lawyer, I learned to try to find common ground with people, to look for a human connection. When I got to the Senate, despite the fact that there were a lot of people who didn't want me to get there - and were sure they'd never even talk to me, let alone work with me - I really tried to do the job I was sent there to do by the people of New York, which was to get things done for my constituents. I worked with Republicans, and we found a lot of common ground. It isn't easy, but it's part of what we have to do in politics today.

  Hillary Clinton

  New York, Jobs, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.

  Colin Powell

  Organization, Leader, Roles

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.

  Rick Larsen

  Home, Commitment, Years

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