Representatives Quotes · Page 3

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

— Ezra Taft Benson

If the president does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available.

— Brett Kavanaugh

I was on the elections committee in my last session in the state House of Representatives.

— Marc Veasey

When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.

— Woodrow Wilson

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

— Yvette Clarke

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

— Martin Schulz

There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.

— Rush Limbaugh

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my…

— George McGovern

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.

— Donald Trump

There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body,…

— Sukarno

I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in…

— Alexander Hamilton

It's also not true that 'abuse of power' is not impeachable, or that a statutory crime is necessary for impeachment.

— George T. Conway III

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

— Alex Haley

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

— Harold B. Lee

The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an…

— Mike Lofgren

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band…

— Benjamin Tucker

The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate…

— Clive Bell

It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and…

— Eleanor Smeal

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been one of my good friends in the House of Representatives. When she was brutally shot, Gabby was…

— Chellie Pingree

If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on…

— Anonymous

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil…

— Indira Gandhi

Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their…

— Rudolf Rocker

The cardinal points are a direct reference to the astrological colures. The Cardinals surround the Pope as the cardinal points surround the…

— Michael Tsarion

I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit…

— Errol Flynn

During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative…

— George Bernard Shaw

David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy…

— Bill Moyers

The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest,…

— Allen Ginsberg

We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record…

— Edward Snowden

Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more…

— John Adams

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

— Donald Trump

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

— Robert Novak

Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

— Noam Chomsky

The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your…

— Krist Novoselic

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people…

— Tony Abbott

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincolns single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing…

— John George Nicolay

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President.…

— Bill Vaughan

Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If…

— Fred Reed