All Quotes

The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
‐‐ Carl Levin

The American people deserve answers about Benghazi before we move forward with military involvement in Syria's civil war.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

The American people deserve long-term, forward-thinking policies.
‐‐ Dean Heller

The American people deserve to know exactly which laws the Obama Administration is refusing to enforce and why.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

The American people deserve to know that their elected leaders play by the exact same rules that they play by and that their lawmakers' only interest is what's best for the country, not their own financial gain.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.
‐‐ Jose Serrano

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.
‐‐ Chris Bell

The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.
‐‐ Bob Graham

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.
‐‐ Harry Reid

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.
‐‐ Darrell Issa

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
‐‐ Ernest Istook

The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.
‐‐ John Yarmuth

The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.
‐‐ Eric Cantor

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
‐‐ Bill Frist

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
‐‐ Melissa Bean

The American people fear there is some gouging going on.
‐‐ Richard Shelby

The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.
‐‐ Eli Broad

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.
‐‐ Darrell Issa

The American people have a right to know on the rare occasions in which their money is used to invest in private operations, if you will, take bets on capitalism, that is very well vetted, very well thought out and without political interference.
‐‐ Darrell Issa

The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe.
‐‐ Sheldon Whitehouse

The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.
‐‐ Hank Johnson

The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.
‐‐ Bob Graham

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.
‐‐ Raul Grijalva

The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes - outweighs the risk of error.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.
‐‐ Russ Carnahan

The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
‐‐ Aaron McGruder

The American people have not become heartless.
‐‐ Joe Biden

The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'
‐‐ Mitt Romney

The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.
‐‐ Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
‐‐ T. Boone Pickens

The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest.
‐‐ Erskine Bowles

The American people know that our economy is struggling right now, partly because of the debt that is impacting American families, hardworking taxpayers all across this country.
‐‐ Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.
‐‐ Geoff Davis

The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?
‐‐ David Plouffe

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.
‐‐ Mike Pence

The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
‐‐ J. D. Hayworth

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
‐‐ Norman Lear

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.
‐‐ Cynthia McKinney

The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.
‐‐ Loretta Lynch

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.
‐‐ Louis Freeh

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.
‐‐ Virginia Foxx

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo