Andrew Jackson Quotes

This is about Floridians saying what's most important to them and making sure that we create an agenda that we can drive and deliver back in Washington, D.C. So it's very exciting.

I'm not searching for ways to tell the District of Columbia what to do.

We have an administration which wants to expand democracy in every part of the world except in its own back yard---Washington DC.

We [Congress] weren't elected by the people of the District [of Columbia] to be the city's government, but we do have a federal responsibility.

The District [of Columbia] is the only place in America with and entire congressional committee and two subcommittees devoted soley to overseeing its affairs.

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.

All politics is local.

Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.

This [Washington DC] is the people's city, and the people of South Carolina have almost as much vested here as the people who live here.

Everyone in Congress represents Washington.

As for participation in politics itself we should consider that if the parliaments and congresses of these countries do not have any Muslim members, then this will pave the way for the opposition to come forth with their harmful views and policies, which will consequently be incorporated into the laws of their countries and bring harm to the Muslims.

The current situation [in Washington DC] will shortly and irresistibly tempt the Congress to reassert federal control over the nation's capital city. If the mayor [Marion Barry] can't restore order, the federal government must.

The Congress must regain the will to govern.

Every Constitution embodies the principles of its framers. It is a transcript of their minds. If its meaning in any place is open to doubt, or if words are used which seem to have no fixed signification, we cannot err if we turn to the framers; and their authority increases in proportion to the evidence which they left on the question.

Members of Congress will pay attention to members of their own districts.

Sending someone to be a non-voting delegate to Congress is like sending a eunuch to an orgy.

New Mexicans are anxious to assume that relation to the Government of the United States which will ... advance their local interests, and will enable them, through their Senators and Representatives in Congress, to demand ... protection and consideration from the Government which they now have to solicit as a matter of grace.

The framers of our Constitution came up with two major contributions to the art of government. The first was the idea of an executive not dependent on the political support of the legislature. The second was the idea of the judiciary independent of the executive and legislative branches.

The idea of an actual representation of all classes of the people, by persons of each class, is altogether visionary. Unless it were expressly provided in the Constitution, that each different occupation should send one or more members, the thing would never take place in practice. Mechanics and manufacturers will always be inclined, with few exceptions, to give their votes to merchants, in preference to persons of their own professions or trades. Those discerning citizens are well aware that the mechanic and manufacturing arts furnish the materials of mercantile enterprise and industry. Many of them, indeed, are immediately connected with the operations of commerce. They know that the merchant is their natural patron and friend; and they are aware, that however great the confidence they may justly feel in their own good sense, their interests can be more effectually promoted by the merchant than by themselves. They are sensible that their habits in life have not been such as to give them those acquired endowments, without which, in a deliberative assembly, the greatest natural abilities are for the most part useless; and that the influence and weight, and superior acquirements of the merchants render them more equal to a contest with any spirit which might happen to infuse itself into the public councils, unfriendly to the manufacturing and trading interests

Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.

I want to go back to Congress and get to work on making a real difference for the families and workers of South Florida.

Most of what I've proposed in Congress grew out of issues raised with me back here in Connecticut.

What I intend to do is be just a really fierce advocate for Minnesotans here in Washington, D.C.

I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.