Political Responsiveness Quotes

Congress and elected bodies always tend to react. As public bodies we are behind the people.

The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.

In a political sense, there is one problem that underlies all of the others. The problem is making government sufficiently responsive to the people.

In this country the government responds to the people, not the other way around.

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.

In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.

There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.

It's very hard for politicians to ignore even just a handful of letters about the same issue.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

… we need the flexibility and enthusiasm of youth to make any political party respond to the needs of today.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5' 7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

When controversy calls, corporations can be far more responsive than politicians. The market votes every day, after all.

What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants.

The members of Congress are very, very good about sensing what people are upset about.

Ignoring party leaders in order to sway public opinion may work in countries where elected representatives are responsive to their constituencies. But in Mexico, members of the legislature cannot be reelected, so their destinies depend less on the will of the people than on party bosses.

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.

It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.