Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice? — George Mason Copy Share Image
So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
“The legal grounds for impeachment are vital; without them, the political case for impeachment cannot be built. The primary question, however, is… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their representatives, before sending our troops into… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
At the end of the day you have to go home to yourself. You have to be with yourself. So make sure… — Kathryn Finney 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
Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is… — Tomas Borge Copy Share Image
Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one… — David Starkey 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
Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle… — Leo Ryan Copy Share Image
What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid… — Adam Hasner 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
It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing… — John George Nicolay 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
In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think [Steve Scalise] is a good man I am not going to vote in that regard because I believe Israel controls… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
As elected representatives, MLAs are accountable to the people and I will not allow anyone to undermine their importance. — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and… — Ben Zobrist Copy Share Image
It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
What I've done as a union leader and what literally thousands of other union representatives do, is make sure that we have… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Relationships, easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Because it’s hard to keep up the… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The Trans Pacific Partnership (and fast-track authority to whisk it through Congress without debate) is fast approaching. If you haven't seen our… — Robert Reich 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
Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for… — David Duke Copy Share Image