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I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.
They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.
Many a man, under the old and the new systems, has made the upward step from candidate to legislator, only to achieve his level of incompetence.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.
It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun.
I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.
Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.
Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed
[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament,
I'm not a public official. I'm a businessman, I'm a builder, I'm a planner.
Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall.
Constituents. Many of them greeted their Congressman
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
It is easy to conceive that, according to the power of the legislator, it destroys for its own profit, and in different degrees, amongst the rest of the community, personal independence by slavery, liberty by oppression, and property by plunder. It
[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.
Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.
[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.
I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.
You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.
the individual is today no longer primarily a citizen, but a party member.
In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
Here's where I'm different from a senator. We pass continuing resolutions. We pass appropriations bills.
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.
I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.
The most important office ... that of private citizen.
I'm a Congressman, and can do whatever I want
I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.
Here sir, the people govern.
I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.
The most important political office is that of private citizen.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.
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.
I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.
You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.
You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.
I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I'd quit tomorrow. I'm not tall, dark and handsome. They don't vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can't get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
congress of angels.
I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position.
Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.
Lawyers are natural politicians.
As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.
You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.
I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.
I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy.
I am not a politician.
I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.
Congress: America's only true criminal class.
I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.
Every state in which anyone other than the statesman has to concern himself with politics is ill organized and deserves to perish by all these politicians. Another
I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.
I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
I'm not a politician.
I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.
As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.
a political class deeply sensitive to its moral and social responsibilities.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
I'm not a politician; I'm an artist.
I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.
Governor Kempthorne of Idaho, our chairman of the National Governors Association, is doing a great job bringing all of the nation's governors together to work as partners with the federal government.
I'm running for governor; I'm not running for a legislative office.
While politicians contend, and men are swerved this way and that by conflicting tides of interest and passion, the great cause of human liberty is in the hands of one ... who shall not fail nor be discouraged ...
When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
I'm a United States senator. I'm not an Israeli senator.
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.
Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.
I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.
To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.
Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.