Representatives Quotes

A benefactor is a representative of God.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Governments are not representative.

— Noam Chomsky

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

— George H. W. Bush

Here sir, the people govern.

— Alexander Hamilton

Impeaching a president is a solemn event.

— Jessica Tarlov

Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor

— James Madison

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

— Jacques Delors

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.

— Charles Hodge

The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.

— Nancy Pelosi

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

— Thomas Paine

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

— Virgil Goode

My position has always been that the House of Representatives does not take reservations. It's walk-in only.

— Eric Swalwell

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

— Mark McKinnon

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith…

— Shadia Drury

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative…

— Ralph Adams Cram

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to…

— John Bright

I am proud to represent people who care so deeply about their communities. Their perseverance and strength only motivates me more as…

— Martha Roby

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired…

— Slavoj Žižek

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the…

— Peggy Noonan

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking…

— David Malpass

Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged…

— Thomas Paine

We have not only a Hindu prayer being offered in the Senate, we have a Muslim member of the House of Representatives…

— Bill Sali

The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative…

— Martin Esslin

Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling…

— Ben Shapiro

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

All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the…

— Marvin Mudrick

If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and…

— George Steiner

If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign…

— Malcolm X

We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all…

— Thomas Jefferson

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things…

— Stephen King

Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities…

— Sandra Scarr

In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“What the [Clinton/Lewinsky scandal] showed was that a matter of personal behavior could crowd out of the public's attention far more serious…

— Howard Zinn

'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a…

— Emma Goldman

The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of…

— Friedrich Engels

The customer service representative hung up on me when I asked to talk to a supervisor.

— Jon Jones

That customer service representative is crazy, if he think I am going to pay that bill.

— Jon Jones

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

— Christopher Hitchens