Representatives Quotes · Page 11

[Melania Trump] is a very, very strong advocate. I think she's a great representative for this country.

— Donald Trump

However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it…

— Donald Woods Winnicott

Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is…

— Tomas Borge

I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

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

— Edward Snowden

The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

You're often looking at writing from writers who, for the most part, are working in forms that traditionally fit into other genres.…

— John D'Agata

If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention…

— George Orwell

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

There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns…

— Warren G. Harding

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

— Allan H. Meltzer

The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no…

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost…

— Eugene V. Debs

[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their…

— Joseph Stalin

[Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment…

— Sam Brownback

The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the…

— Jalal Talabani

The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of…

— Alexander Downer

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

The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was…

— Leonard Shlain

men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue…

— Dale Spender

When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed…

— Tony Evans

That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Colin Powell