Representing the People Quotes

I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do.

My policy has always been to say what I believe to be in the best interest of the American people and hope the voters agree, or at least will respect my honesty.

I'm so proud of being a populist!

Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me.

You are now public property, and ought to be where you can be reached by the people until you are inaugurated.

When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.

Saying 'no' to very bad legislation is not wrong. In fact, when the American people tell you that they don't want the health care bill, you've got a responsibility to say no.

The BBC should mirror the country.

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

I don't go to Washington to represent the president; I go to represent the people of this district.

It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.

My job is to represent my district. That's who I'm responsible to and for.

We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.

So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in.

I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.

A failure to listen to the party's grassroots was a charge regularly levelled at Theresa May - particularly over Brexit.

Maybe its time for politicians to fight back a little bit in terms of this notion that politicians are all in it for themselves, we're all the same, we're not driven by sincere motives. Because the fact of the matter is the vast majority are.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

People get Washington-ized a lot of times, being down there for awhile, and forget that we're called members of the House of Representatives because we're meant to represent people.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

I conclude where I began, I was elected by the people of Australia to do a job. I was not elected by the factional leaders of Australia, of the Australian Labor Party to do a job - though they may be seeking to do a job on me, that's a separate matter. The challenge therefore is to honour the mandate given to me by the Australian people.

Serving the people of Arkansas' 2nd District is the honor of a lifetime, and I'm grateful for the opportunity I have been given by my fellow Arkansans.

It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.

People do want to see themselves reflected. They'll never believe that Gwen Graham, Philip Levine, Chris King, or Jeff Greene will be a better representative of their interests than I will be.