Jeanne Shaheen Quotes

Sometimes in Washington you get a little disconnected. I want to make sure I know what people are actually doing each day.

It's our duty in Congress to bring the voices of our communities to Washington.

My approach to public service is straightforward: I fight every day for New Jersey families, small businesses, veterans, and seniors and work to change the way business is done in Washington.

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

We're prepared to place our trust in the people to reshape the government. Our liberal friends place their trust in the government to reshape the people.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

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.

We need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political process.

I'm doing a good job in Washington.

Washington is built on power.

We rely on the rule of law. I think we've lost touch with that concept in Washington.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem.

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

I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.