Johnny Isakson

Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.

American Politician

Noam Chomsky

Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

American Activist

Desmond Tutu

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

South African Leader

Gautam Adani

From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

Indian Businessman

Jeb Bush

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

Jeremy Gilley

I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness.

English Actor

Jim Crace

I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.

English Writer

Nicholas Soames

I'm very lucky in my constituency. I have very grown up sensible members who don't agree with me, but we never have a quarrel. I absolutely respect their views.

British Politician

John Mackey

Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.

American Businessman

Robert Scheer

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

American Journalist

Understand that 'constituency' can refer to people who vote for or support a politician, not just the region.

Political Representation

'Constituency' also specifically means the actual physical area covered by a politician's mandate.

Geographical Area

The word is mostly used in a democratic context where elections take place.

Civic Context

'Constituency' signifies a group bound by similar interests within a larger population, not just customers.

Common Interests

In business, 'constituency' doesn't always refer to a geographical area, often meaning a target audience.

Figurative Use

'Constituency' emphasizes the power of residents to make decisions through voting.

Electoral Power

Sometimes 'constituency' includes non-voting residents who are represented or affected by decisions.

Not Just Voters

 I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness. And actually I could never raise awareness by myself, no matter what I'd achieved. So these guys were absolutely crucial. So he said yes,

Jeremy Gilley: One day...

 seen all those constituencies coming out for her and being present on the mall and having parties and having all these things so hopefully people are doing that in their homes but we do not see or i have not seen anything like that on the streets of dc well my daughter and i raised a glass to the first madame vice president and

Bonus Episode: Bicycles,...

 It's got to come from us, and I see this process of deciding democratically in a bottom-up fashion what the world wants to work on together as one vital means by which we can crowdsource the force to really build that constituency that's going to reinvigorate global governance

Jamie Drummond: Let's...

 constituency that she is going to get copyright protection for fashion designs the retailers have kind of quashed this notion though I don't think the legislation is going anywhere because they realized is so hard to tell the difference between a pirated design and

Lessons from fashion's...

 because they learned largely from someone they trusted if they get the risk and to ignore the risk is not conservative they are working to bring their constituencies along because they also see the opportunity it's a moment in history with opportunity to move from

The climate change...

 But what you realize, it's got an Achilles' heel. The brand has an Achilles' heel. We've mentioned the health, but it needs consumers to buy into it. The consumers it needs are the terrorist constituency. They're the people who buy into the brand, support them,

Jason McCue: Terrorism...

 And yet, as a movement that has to broaden its constituency, that has to grow, that has to reach out beyond our natural comfort zone, one of the challenges to the success of this movement, of getting rid of things like plastic and helping the economy shift,

The economic injustice...

 and she has told her constituency that she is going to get copyright protection for fashion designs. The retailers have kind of quashed this notion though. I don't think the legislation is going anywhere, because they realized it is so hard

Johanna Blakely: Lessons...

 And that's fine. That's life. But I have another constituency to whom I'm accountable, and that's one that is within my city, but reaches beyond my city boundaries. And that's the planet

How Is Your City...

 We said, "Look, here you have a platform that you can use to build a two-way conversation with your constituencies." And yes, we failed. We failed big time.