Charles Bradlaugh Quotes

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

It has ever been my opinion that the electors have a right to instruct their members. For my part, I shall always think it my duty in Parliament to be guided by your counsels and instructions. I shall consider myself the servant of my constituents, not their master—subservient to their will, not superior to it.

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.

I have never used my office for anything other than the purpose in which I hold it - to represent the people who sent me to Washington.

I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.

Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I'd quit tomorrow. I'm not tall, dark and handsome. They don't vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can't get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.

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.

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

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 decided there was nothing in Washington as important as one constituent, and I dropped everything when one called.

A Senate seat is a terrible thing to waste.

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.

Most people who serve in Congress just want to do the right thing.

The moral element … ministers, professors, and respectable persons … do not believe politics should be pursued as a trade.

Whenever I had to make a difficult decision as a Congressman, I thoud think about the average citisen in my Congressional districr and how he would advise me if he knew everythign I knew about the issue.

I'm one of these guys who believes you represent the people who sent you to Washington, D.C., not matter what the cost. The cost could be very grave.

With the consent of the people, I will seek to continue service in Congress for the well-being of our state and our nation.

I'm very proud and happy to be serving the people of Arkansas and the Senate, and I look forward to continue to serve them.

No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.

First and foremost, the duty of a representative is to represent the interests of his constituents.

MPs are paid to be representatives of their constituents. They have to do that job.

As representatives, we are accountable first not to our party, not to our leadership, not to the chief executive, but just to our constituents.