Gina Miller Quotes

Ask yourself, have you ever heard any of your PAP MPs ask the hard questions? As a Singaporean, you have a right to information that the Government is refusing to answer.

Beyond providing some level of scrutiny of Kenyan MPs, we built Mzalendo to demonstrate that there is only so much bemoaning you can do about your representation.

Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.

Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.

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

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

If you're a politician and all you care about is staying in office, you're worried about a small group of voters in your district who vote in the primary. If you're a corporation, you need to be much more in synch with public opinion, because you're appealing to people across the spectrum. Ironically, a lot of corporations have to be far more democratic than democratically elected officials.

Question Period is not part of the legislative process, and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.

We don’t trust government, but we need government….Government didn’t land here from Mars. We elected them.

That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

Members of Congress are people too.

People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.

Parliament's job is to conduct discussions. But many a time, Parliament is used to ignore issues, and in such situations, obstruction of Parliament is in the favour of democracy. Therefore, parliamentary obstruction is not undemocratic.

No one questions the right of individuals to go to the Central Lobby to explain their views to their own Member of Parliament. It is important for those in power to hear arguments in favour of policies from all sides and ought to lead to better decision-making.

MPs put ourselves at the behest of the British people, certainly, but we are not infallible or devoid of sensitivity.

The government takes the opposition day debates incredibly seriously.

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

Any of us who wants to go to Parliament must have that responsibility to represent the people who voted us in.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away. The rights that are entrusted to us are not for us to give away. Even if I agree with everything that is proposed, I cannot hand away powers lent to me for five years by the people of Chesterfield. I just could not do it. It would be theft of public rights.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

We want councillors and MPs to be more closely involved in housing issues because this will help to strengthen local democracy and accountability.

One of my ideas is that we post every vote on Facebook and on social media so that voters have an opportunity to hold their elected official accountable.