Blake Farenthold Quotes

What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

It is a privilege to serve the country in the United States Senate and serve the people of New Hampshire. I wake up every day with a sense of purpose.

I think Alaskans expect me to think, to think about them and do the right thing for them.

In politics, the leaders are supposed to work and work.

I thank the voters of Upstate N.Y. for this privilege to serve and pledge to continue to work tirelessly on their behalf in this final term.

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

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

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.

My focus is on my constituents.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

When you nominate for a seat, the expectation is that you serve that district and serve that seat if you are elected.

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.

A voting record is your work product. It tells people where you stand on issues, and for better or worse it implies you're there doing what you're elected to do. It's the only litmus test available.

They [Congressmen] may ... consult and prefer the interests of their particular constituents when they come in conflict with any other particular or local interest, yet it is their first or highest duty, as representatives of the United States, to promote the general good.

Duty, gratitude, interest, ambition itself, are the cords by which they [the Federal representatives] will be bound to fidelity and sympathy with the great mass of the people.

If elected, I shall consider the whole people of Sangamon my constituents, as well those that oppose as those that support me. While acting as their representative I shall be governed by their will on all subjects upon which I have the means of knowing what their will is.

The job of the politician isn’t to tell you what you want to hear, but to tell you what needs to be done.

We politicians are no great shakes, but you voters are no day at the beach.

I wasn't elected to avoid conflict. I was elected to represent the people of the 2nd District.

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.

I want to fight hard for the values and priorities of my district.