Christine Todd Whitman Quotes

We've had enough career politicians in Helena who think the people are here to serve them. It's supposed to be the other way around.

As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

We should all be able to have faith that our governments are working in our best interests - and if they aren't, then they should be challenged and held to account.

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.

We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.

And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

You don't support politicians in their elections if whoever's seeking money only has a goal to stay in office or get in office. You have to pick the people who are going to do the best job.

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

He's a terrible politician, but he makes a fine senator and public servant.

When it comes to listening to my constituents or to the governor's staff, who are more interested in their pet projects and their government cars, I'll vote for my constituents every time.

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not to those who receive the trust.

Presidents come from the people and the should return to the people.

Politics is a profession as certainly as base ball.... The only difference is that base ball is on the square; no base ball hero claims he is working in the interest of the crowd in the bleachers.

We have a Congress to serve the people who provide the money.