Elizabeth Warren Quotes

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.

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

Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

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?

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

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

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

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.

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

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

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

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

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.

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

There have been 2000 Americans who have served in Congress. The people who serve in Congress are no better nor no worse than those in any other American institution.

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.

A government is not in power. It is in office, put there by the will of the people.

If you ever doubt that the people are the boss in a democracy, run for office. Even the President is a hired hand.

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

Members of Congress are trustees of the people.

I have enormous respect for people who do run for office.

Members of Congress are people too.

It's extremely important that we elect people that look like the population they serve.