The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As a customer service representative; I deal with people all day. Some really are guilty of not paying their bill. — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on… — Bill McCollum Copy Share Image
Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Today, our planet demands a more effective, efficient, transparent and representative United Nations; a UN where all societies of the world have… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
In the very next election, the American people elected 63 new Republicans to the House of Representatives - the largest sweep of… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The Chinese are not stupid people. They're very smart people. They told me very, very distinctly that they cannot believe how stupid… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
How do you, on the one hand, not object to Hillary Clinton being elected, and then, on the other hand, tell people,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
Well, I would say that we've got to redefine democracy, that we have been stuck in concepts of representative democracy, that we… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special… — William Greider Copy Share Image
An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone… — William Golding Copy Share Image
My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I'm willing to be representative. I'm just an actor. I'm just playing a role, so even if it is a person I… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't think we should take the emotional reactions of a few people as more representative than those of the millions of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power,… — Patty Murray Copy Share Image
We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight. — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are… — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples'… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
