Representatives Quotes · Page 3

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor

— James Madison

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

— Jacques Delors

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

— Virgil Goode

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.

— Charles Hodge

The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.

— Nancy Pelosi

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

— Thomas Paine

My position has always been that the House of Representatives does not take reservations. It's walk-in only.

— Eric Swalwell

All our elected representatives - and our government - have a responsibility to keep their people safe and well.

— Gina Miller

When it comes to our Constitution, judges perform, certainly, an important role. But the people, acting through their elected representatives, should play…

— Mike DeWine

My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to…

— Carl Hart

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

— Donald Trump

Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a…

— Simon Blackburn

One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of…

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

Not everyone supported gaming, but we had a general meeting and a vote on whether to pursue a casino or not and…

— Donna M. Loring

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that…

— Sandra Fluke

When it comes to the Supreme Court, the American people have only two times when they have any input into how our…

— Mike DeWine

I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was…

— Che Guevara

There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If…

— Noam Chomsky

Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard…

— Paul Krugman

The Kochs are very much involved in this election, not backing [Donald] Trump but backing everything down the ballot from him. They're…

— Jane Mayer

In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by…

— Theodor Adorno

If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a…

— James Madison

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

— Alexander Hamilton

“What the [Clinton/Lewinsky scandal] showed was that a matter of personal behavior could crowd out of the public's attention far more serious…

— Howard Zinn

'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a…

— Emma Goldman

The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of…

— Friedrich Engels

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in…

— Ezra Pound

I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great…

— John Stark

One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I went to England to tell jokes, and I wanted to tell my Smokey the Bear joke, but I had to ask…

— Mitch Hedberg

I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in…

— Howard Zinn

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

— Mark McKinnon

The customer service representative hung up on me when I asked to talk to a supervisor.

— Jon Jones

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

— Yvette Clarke

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Rush Limbaugh

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

— Alexander Hamilton

[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