Barack Obama Quotes

Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

Criticism, any amount, we welcome it. Come, let's have a discussion - in Parliament, all the better.

The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

We need to be constantly reminded that this is a representative democracy, and we need to be in tune to what people are talking about.

Speaker Boehner has said many times that the House of Representatives is the closest institution to the people, and he recognizes that by empowering the members to have direct input into the process.

The job of an elected official is to communicate, to talk with constituents, to talk with the people of America, and I think Alexandria is excellent at doing that.

I ran for Congress to give Kansans a real voice in Washington, D.C. - not to let our priorities be drowned out by special interests.

Every single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

I operate on the assumption that as a member of Congress, presently, I represent everybody - Republicans, Democrats, independents and, yes, some people who don't care to participate.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

We need to address issues our people think about and talk about. Because there is a feeling that Europe elites are addressing different issues. Not the ones that people care about.

The primary reason that I'd be here or that Don Payne Jr. would be here is for you to know that members of Congress actually exist and are human.

When we ignore the will of the people, people lose.

I am a U.S. senator from North Carolina. I'm worried about doing the business on the Capitol Hill. I'm not going to get into the parlor games and the political discussions about a separate and co-equal branch.

At the end of the day, politics is meant to do good to the society.

In Parliament, you need to ensure that there is a diverse and well-rounded group of individuals who are coming together to speak on behalf of national interests. I want to represent the voices of young Singaporeans who feel that they want a stake in this country, who want to have their voice heard.

My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.

Politics is not about a certain type or breed of people. It is a representation of the different voices we have in society.

We believe that when there is a democratic setup, we have a greater voice.

There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his harangue until he has made all his useful suggestions about the 24 states of the Union, and especially the district he represents.