Constituents Quotes - Page 8

• Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Leader, Democracy, Faults

  "Stranger in a Strange Land". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, p. 232, 1991.

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• You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their constituents and others.

  Marco Rubio

  Reality, People, Political

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My door remains always open to all constituents to discuss matters of concern to them.

  Peter Slipper

  Doors, Matter, Concern

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• The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.

  Winston Churchill

  Doors, Essence, House

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Great Contemporaries”

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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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• Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

  Tammy Baldwin

  People, Listening, Growing

  "Tammy Baldwin launches" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. September 06, 2011.

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• Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Cutting, Benefits, Want

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• The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district.

  Sandy Adams

  Differences, Endorsements

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• The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.

  Hippocrates

  Pain, Health, Yellow

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Giving Up, Ions, Would Be

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• Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!

  Boss Tweed

  Writing, Paper, Care

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• My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it.

  Geert Wilders

  Want, Proud, Voters

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.

  Jeff Sessions

  Policy

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of activists of color and their constituents reflects their life experiences of social, economic, and political disenfranchisement.

  Robert D Bullard

  Color, Racism, Focus

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• It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The crucial distinction lies in their structure, i.e., the manner in which the pieces are assembled. Evil is disintegration, an angry juxtaposition of alienated opposites, with parts always striving to repress other parts. Good is the synthesis and reconciliation of these same pieces.

  Charles Hampden-Turner

  Lying, Opposites, Differences

  Charles Hampden-Turner (1982). “Maps of the Mind”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• The pool of illegal immigrants is like a qualified bunch of people. You don't have to do surveys. You don't have to interview them. You know they are ready-made Democrat voters. Not only that, they are readymade Democrat constituents.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Voters, Interviews

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.

  Joseph Story

  Government, Next, Essentials

  Joseph Story (1873). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.370, Boston : Little, Brown

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• The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ideas, Government, Important

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Numbers

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their obligations to their constituents, and prove unfaithful to their important trust.

  James Madison

  Government, Important, Degrees

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.285

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• We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents.

  Nick Lampson

  Opportunity, Airports, Important

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• Senator [Tom Cotton] got a ton of blowback. He became the star of fake missing person`s signs, encouraging folks to call if they saw him and also to call him and ask why he had been missing while his constituents were looking for him.

  Rachel Maddow

  Stars, Missing, Fake

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot be seen in any of its constituent parts. This is the process called "emergence."

  John L. Casti

  Couple, Simple, Easy

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Proud, Stood Up, Ability

  "Transcript of the Democratic Presidential Debate". www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.

  Ralph Nader

  War, Cycling, Oil

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