Jeff Sessions Quotes

Voters do not decide issues. They decide who will decide issues.

Having elected a government, we will be best advised to let it govern and to let it speak for us as it will in the councils of the nations.

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.

It is a tenet of representative democracy that MPs are not delegates for their constituents. This means that their decisions and actions are ultimately governed by putting the best interests of all their constituency before all else.

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

The actual rulers in a parliamentary democracy are the class of professional politicians. In theory, they are supposed to represent the people, but in fact they rule over them.

The Members of the Parliament shall be bound solely by their own conscience and not by any directions given by their electors.

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.

To say that sovereignty vests with the people, and that they have not a right to instruct and control their representative is absurd to the last degree.

… a permanent Council of the ablest men chosen by the people

Congress is the voice, the conscience, and the judgment of the American people

The wisdom and discretion of Congress ... are the restraints on which the people must often rely solely, in all representative governments

It is time the American people saw the incredible power of staff members ...and how little power the members who are elected by the people, as opposed to the unelected, have in the decision-making process.

The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.

You don't get to recall a senator just because you don't like her or just because you want the seat for your own party.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

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

Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.

I think that the voters should choose the elected officials, not the elected officials choose the voters.

We're representing our districts. I make decisions on my district.