Harry Truman once said, 'There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Military and absolutist regimes are undoubtedly well fitted to get the jump on an unsuspecting or unprepared enemy; but the history of… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with… — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Imagine a German as president of the European Commission. If he or she goes to some particular country and says do this… — Martin Schulz 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
Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational… — Eric Abetz Copy Share Image
What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values. — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years.… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
You are a true representative of the spirituality of our home, India. Ever since I met you for the first time, the… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's about using social media for social change: creating a community of advocates who can use their voices on behalf of the… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
SETH said: The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
You have to realize that people who bother to log on to anything and talk about a television show is a very… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Because once the black man becomes the political master of his own community, it means that the politicians of that community will… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image