A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing. — Robert Reischauer Copy Share Image
“the people are intelligent, the people are just, and in time these characteristics must have an effect on their Representatives.” — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the offer either. — Abhisit Vejjajiva Copy Share Image
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is the smooth central representation of all that, and 'all that' is more or less what is in power now… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
It's very easy for me to begin to believe the publicity about myself, whether for or against. It can give you an… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Impeachment did not have to be for criminal offenses - but only for a course of conduct' that suggested an abuse of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the… — Leo Ryan Copy Share Image
SETH said: The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
“Proving “high crimes and misdemeanors” is necessary to make the case for presidential removal, but it is not sufficient. The politics takes… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
Representative Chris Lee was forced to resign after sending a shirtless picture of himself to a woman on Craigslist. On the bright… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
As debate is rare in the House of Representatives, since nearly all real business is done in the committees, it is very… — D. W Brogan Copy Share Image
Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
McCarthy had ten years in the House of Representatives, only two terms as a senator. What did he pass? Are there any… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The records of every great religion show the presence of such Supermen, so full of the Divine Life that again and again… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice? — George Mason Copy Share Image
