Congressional Districts Quotes

The difference between being a member of the House and being a member of the Senate is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit.

You have 435 people in the United States House of Representatives trying to get along.

Nothing Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton did together will ever have as much impact on election results as the partisan makeup of congressional districts around the country.

There once was a time when people chose their congressmen. Now congressmen choose their people.

We tend to think of the House as a less historically significant legislative body than the Senate. There are more representatives than there are senators, they're up for re-election every two years, and many come and go without having much of an impact.

When the Constitution was written in 1787, there was this supposition that American politics would be above party. The people who would staff the positions in government would have the interests of the country, or at least their states and congressional districts, at heart, and so they wouldn't form permanent political parties.

Do I have comedy writers? Of course I have writers—535 of them—100 in the Senate and 435 in the House.

As nearly as practicable one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's.

The basis of our constitution is in opposition to the principle of equal political rights if it refuses to all but freeholders any participation in the natural right of self-government... And even among our citizens who participate in the representative privilege, the equality of political rights is entirely prostrated by our constitution... if it gives to every citizen of one county as much weight in the government as to twenty-two equal citizens in another.. If these fundamental principles are of no importance in actual government, then no principles are important.

Everyone in Congress represents Washington.

If a member of Congress doesn’t pay attention to process of reapportionment as the result of the census, he ends up being called “former Congressman.”

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts, and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

We're a small state. Our quantity of representation in Washington is not as large as a Texas, an Ohio, or a New York. So when decisions are made on the federal level, our voice can get drowned out.

I represent the 9th Congressional District of Georgia. I'm their voice.

Considering the question of Reform … the Queen thinks the proposal of merely adding neighboring towns to the small boroughs an improvement on the original plan, which contemplated the taking away of members from some boroughs, and giving them to others. Thus the animosity may be hoped to be avoided which an attack upon vested interests could not have failed to have produced. Much will depend, however, upon the completeness, fairness, and impartiality with which the selection of the towns will be made which are to be admitted into the electoral district of others.

The district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year.

Indiana's ninth congressional district isn't historically known as a fount of congressional contributions. That said, if you look at my fundraising history, we've succeeded.

The right of suffrage can be denied by a debasement or dilution of the weight of a citizen’s vote just as effectively as by wholly prohibiting the free exercise of the franchise.

Redistricting makes the inequities in campaign financing even worse. Most elections are so noncompetitive due to how the lines are drawn that big donors already know who's going to win. So they give to the likely winners to curry favor.

Disease does not recognize congressional districts or party affiliation.

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.

Between floor votes, hearings and meetings, a typical week in Washington is about 70 hours. And back in the district, it's about 60 hours, a lot of which is spent with constituents.

Congress is a culture and I would love to be part of it.

I thought incorporating Columbus and Platte County into the 1st District was a good idea.

Gerrymandering is not hard. The core technique is to jam voters likely to favor your opponents into a few throwaway districts where the other side will win lopsided victories, a strategy known as “packing.” Arrange other boundaries to win close victories, “cracking” opposition groups into many districts.