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
No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
As a customer service representative; I deal with people all day. Some really are guilty of not paying their bill. — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are… — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples'… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
[The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
I try to make Play Cloths really representative of me and my designers they look at my evolution as an artist and… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history;… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
How do you, on the one hand, not object to Hillary Clinton being elected, and then, on the other hand, tell people,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative. — Barbara Kruger 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
The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be --… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Well, I would say that we've got to redefine democracy, that we have been stuck in concepts of representative democracy, that we… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'm willing to be representative. I'm just an actor. I'm just playing a role, so even if it is a person I… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power,… — Patty Murray Copy Share Image
We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight. — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't think we should take the emotional reactions of a few people as more representative than those of the millions of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image