Chuck Grassley Quotes

As representatives, we are accountable first not to our party, not to our leadership, not to the chief executive, but just to our constituents.

Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament.

No one can be responsible for every congressman or every member of his own party.

I'm running because Hoosiers deserve a senator who makes promises here in Indiana and then keeps them in Washington.

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators.

I have a constituency of one.

You cannot punish the people for the mistakes the politicians make.

We are hiring too many people who are called politicians, and we are not holding them accountable…. You do not hire someone and not tell them what to do. Make a trip to Washington and see that they are doing what you want them to do.

People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases.

We’re the Republican Party in charge of every part of the this government. We have nobody to blame but ourselves.

I have a track record of going out and talking to my constituents and then standing up and representing them. That's what people want.

Obviously, I am a member of Congress, and things that I say are elevated on a national level, and I understand that very clearly.

We can and must support our MPs in doing the job they will be elected to do: to hold the government to account in order to do what's best for Britain.

MPs put ourselves at the behest of the British people, certainly, but we are not infallible or devoid of sensitivity.

I believe that politicians should implement the promises that they've given in manifestos.

Any of us who wants to go to Parliament must have that responsibility to represent the people who voted us in.

My constituents are my employers - if I let them down I should be accountable to them.

We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.