There is a flaw in the operation of representative…

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 new partnership…

— Barack Obama

Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served…

— Henry Rollins

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

— Edward Snowden

Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who…

— William Powell

We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly,…

— Edward Everett

The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.…

— Hugo Black

There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action - of…

— Howard Zinn

One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than that, I…

— Harold B. Lee

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns.…

— Edward Abbey

It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all…

— Barack Obama

I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to…

— Joe Biden

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

— Ronald Reagan

It is the US government's desire for the Iraqi people to lead themselves, not for any outside power to be the leadership for Iraq…

— Colin Powell