“...the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.” — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I wouldn't go to America if I thought Americans were representative of their government. — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government. — Allan H. Meltzer Copy Share Image
Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents. — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
I want people to be inspired by politicians because they have a heart for the people, because they absolutely want to be… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It's not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
The essence of the Progressive movement, as I see it, lies in its purpose to uphold the fundamental principles of representative government.… — Robert La Folette Copy Share Image
When members of a certain party concoct various devious schemes to suppress votes, purposely misinform potential voters, spread vile untrue filth about… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
I believe that it is my duty and your duty to teach our children concerning this great God-inspired Constitution, this great law… — Charles W. Nibley Copy Share Image
The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The people are committed to ruinous policies, all without noticing. They have neither the experience nor the time to study all these… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
It is the US government's desire for the Iraqi people to lead themselves, not for any outside power to be the leadership… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“For Madison, on the other hand, “a Public Debt is a Public curse,” and “in a Representative Government greater than in any… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional… — Giuseppe Prezzolini Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in democratic representative government as the best form for those who have the tolerance and self-restraint that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
