In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
While I understand we might like to expect that our political representatives will be role models rather than reprobates, that doesn't mean… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for… — David Duke Copy Share Image
As calls come to us for church service by the Lord's representatives, it is natural for us to wonder why we have… — Henry D. Taylor Copy Share Image
In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material.… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The two impeachment articles charged President Clinton with perjury and obstruction of justice.16 The charges satisfied the “high crimes and misdemeanors” threshold,… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am proud to represent people who care so deeply about their communities. Their perseverance and strength only motivates me more as… — Martha Roby Copy Share Image
The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
“Lawmakers who have determined that presidential malfeasance merits impeachment have an obligation to try to persuade Americans that this is so.” — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children;… — John Bright Copy Share Image
People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand,… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
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