Nate Silver Quotes

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.

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.

It is necessary to have lived in this insulator which is called the national assembly, in order to perceive how the men who are the most completely ignorant of the state of the country are almost always the ones who represent it.

Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they want to accomplish, rather than talking about their opponent, we would begin to shape and reshape American public opinion on what the political world looks like.

Everybody has a say, everybody has a voice, because everyone that comes to the House had about 750,000 people they're representing. And you want those voices heard.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.

There have been 2000 Americans who have served in Congress. The people who serve in Congress are no better nor no worse than those in any other American institution.

If politicians are good copy, I like them. If not, I don’t care about them.

If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.

If you can’t move the public, you can’t move the Congress.

Senate: A body of elderly gentlemen charge with high duties and misdemeanors.

The respect of the American people for the Congress has been increased. They can see the Congress as a vigilant Congress.

A Senator is not God or a doctor.

Burke said there were three estates in Parliament; but in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

The people never have and never will be able to understand how the will of a majority of the House of Representatives can be set aside by the judgment of a few men on a powerful committee.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promises of those.

One of my goals, is to make the House co-equal with the White House.