Brad Wenstrup Quotes

I look forward to continuing to represent the people I'm currently serving, as well as the new communities that will be a part of this district in the future.

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

Serving the people of Arkansas' 2nd District is the honor of a lifetime, and I'm grateful for the opportunity I have been given by my fellow Arkansans.

In Washington you legislate, but at home you touch people's lives; that's what I try to do when I go there.

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

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

I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

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

For me to get out in the congressional district that I represent and see all the things that we manufacture there, produce there, to get to know its people better, its businesses better and its government leaders better, all of those things have enriched me.

My family has been in politics a long time in Los Angeles. We very much believe we are elected to represent the people. I mean, I am to give voice to, you know, the over half a million people I represent in my congressional district. I mean, that's the way it works.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

Politics is a people business. I like people.

My focus is on my constituents.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.

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.

Is it not natural that a man who is a candidate for the favor of the people, and who is dependant on the suffrages of his fellow-citizens for the continuation of his public honors, should take care to inform himself of their dispositions and inclinations…? This dependant [creates] strong chords of sympathy between the Representative and the constituent.

I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

I love working for the people of Ohio, and I have a lot more work to do as their senator.

When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.

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

I think, with Wi-Fi, we'll make L.A. a better place for our constituents.

As the MP for Islington South and Finsbury, I have the privilege of representing one of the most diverse constituencies in the U.K.

I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.

It's a little challenging as a congressman to keep a low profile, but I try very hard to keep a low profile.

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