Wayne Rogers Quotes

My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the American democracy is a representative form of democracy.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.

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.

… once you acknowledge the fact that Congress is after all made up of citizens elected to represent all of us, you must have some faith in their framing common sense laws.

I don't know anyone who voted today [in the Senate] who knew what he was voting on.

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

I feel lucky that I get the privilege of serving in the Senate.

As a legislator, I was elected to make the tough decisions and produce solutions to the problems facing our country.

If we're going to make sure that we get our legislation right... we need to actually be spending time with Hoosiers.

Having served as a member of parliament for more than two decades, I'm well aware that there can be genuine constraints that affect the speed at which certain issues progress.

The political groups who have taken the responsibility to elect Mr. Macron have been discredited.

We have never said that we want to challenge the institution of Parliament.

Congress is a party whose both hands are with the common people.

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.

We can and must support our MPs in doing the job they will be elected to do: to hold the government to account in order to do what's best for Britain.

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.

I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.

The representatives of people become uncrowned kings and queens once they get into Parliament.

The point is, is that when you elect a politician, it has nothing to do with their personality. Politicians perform a function, a role in government. And the role of city government is not one that serves the people, unless the people make them do what the people want.

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.

Congress must control their MLAs.

I enjoyed Parliament being a proper elected MP.

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 can be unhappy with the Congress, but I cannot give up on its ideology.