Jay Nixon Quotes

I was a very, very good congressman.

In Washington, I have worked hard for the people, and I've been loved by the people.

I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause.

My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory.

If I only had 12 years left to live, I'd want to live it as a member of Congress because that was the 12 longest years of my life.

Every day, all of us at Gannett are given the rare and sacred opportunity to affect change for the good in the communities we serve, to make life better for the people who trust us to know them and do right by them.

I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues.

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

It has been the greatest privilege of my adult and public life to have served, for 32 years, as the Member of Parliament for our local Highlands and Islands communities.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

I've worked since taking a newspaper route at age 9 and served as a prosecutor, a planning commissioner, a city councilman, and a congressman to pay back some of what my community and nation gave me.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

I served 14 years in the state legislature and served in both the minority and majority.

I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

Susan Brooks is a hard-working public servant who has spent her career fighting for Hoosiers. In Congress, she was the first woman from Indiana to chair a committee, and has become one of the most effective lawmakers in Washington: her dedicated work on behalf of her constituents and our state will be missed.

I have had the fortunate privilege of serving as a state representative for residents in the great cities of Detroit, River Rouge, and Ecorse.

There is no question that I loved representing the people of South Florida.

I will be my own kind of senator using my own best judgment and my own experience.

My constituency is my top priority.

Elective office is one of many ways to serve the community and the country. It's one that I would consider at some point.

In the district I represent, I have to talk to everybody.

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.

I decided to run for Congress because when I was approached as a community leader, I felt that one of the things that spoke to me most was the constituent services.