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 Copy Share Image
The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be --… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch… — John Stuart Mill 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
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
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
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. — Timothy Noah 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
The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected.… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or… — George Mason Copy Share Image
There's a political reality about impeachment. It's purely a political process. The interpretation of "high crimes and misdemeanors" can reach a long… — John Dean Copy Share Image
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
And at the UN she took the advice - she had to take the advice - of the State Department and the… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better,… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared. As long… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and… — George Eliot 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
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
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
Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him. — Mao Zedong 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
It is our duty as representatives in Congress to do the most for everyone we represent, beginning with those who have the… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether… — Brian Lamb Copy Share Image
We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
Mexico has taken advantage of the United States. I don't blame the representatives and various presidents, et cetera, of Mexico. What I… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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