Byron Dorgan: “Edmund Burke said something like: Your representative owes you not only his industry but also his judgment, and he…”

“Edmund Burke said something like: Your representative owes you not only his industry but also his judgment, and he betrays rather than serves if he always sacrifices it to your opinion. [...] to do what they think is right--not to be a weather vane to analyze what is the prevailing wind on Tuesday or Thursday, but to do what they think is right. That is especially important when we are talking about altering the Constitution of the United States.”