It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid… — Adam Hasner Copy Share Image
Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle… — Leo Ryan Copy Share Image
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
When we talk about Cuban democracy we are referring to participatory democracy which is big difference with representative bourgeois democracy. Our is… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
If a politician takes a bribe to do what he thinks would have been best for the public anyway, he still goes… — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Derek Jeter has been a great representative of what the Yankees have stood for over the years. He has been a team… — Joe Girardi Copy Share Image
Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
You have to realize that people who bother to log on to anything and talk about a television show is a very… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Spiritual master is representative of God. Similarly, king is also representative of God. The father is also representative of God. These are… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
One strategy that the tea party smartly embraced was one of being almost entirely defensive. They consciously decided not to figure out… — Ezra G. Levin Copy Share Image
The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Passing articles of impeachment against President Obama in the House at this premature point would have the same effect. There is no… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
As elected representatives, MLAs are accountable to the people and I will not allow anyone to undermine their importance. — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and… — Ben Zobrist Copy Share Image
It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think [Steve Scalise] is a good man I am not going to vote in that regard because I believe Israel controls… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I really feel incredibly fortunate to not be stereotyped. And it's something that I and my representatives are very keen on preserving. — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image