That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative…

— Anonymous

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

“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 ruling class.”

— Giuseppe Prezzolini

I am a firm believer in democratic representative government as the best form for those who have the tolerance and self-restraint that is required…

— Bertrand Russell

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

“As long as you have broad representation from many parts of society, representative government works extremely well. And it works even better when the…

— Ben Carson

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

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

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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