#constituent

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#back #balanced #balanced budget #balanced budget amendment #benefits

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#apostolic #authority #body #church #churches

It's not about what the speaker wants. It's not about necessarily what I want. There's two other principles involved here. It's what the constituents in my district want, and they didn't want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget. ↗

— Tim Huelskamp

#balance #budget #ceiling #constituents #cuts

When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#completed #constituents #must #our #promised

My focus is on my constituents. ↗

— Randy Hultgren

#focus

After the Revolution I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it. ↗

— Fanny Kaplan

#am #assembly #constituent #freed #i

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#always #another #battle #because #believe

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#confederacy #constituents #government #injury #interest

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#cultural #culture #enough #evolution #first

We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#also #always #back #constituents #does