Representative Quotes

267 quotes by 240 authors

The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Spiritual master is representative of God. Similarly, king is also representative of God. The father is also representative of God. These are the statements of… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the… — Barack Obama
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of… — James Madison
If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common… — John Quincy Adams
In fact, the life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories… — Osama bin Laden
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and… — Charles Dickens
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than… — Benjamin Tucker
I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree,… — Alexander Hamilton
I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has… — Thomas Jefferson
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the… — James Madison
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough… — Bernard DeVoto
In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well… — Abraham Lincoln
Representative Chris Lee was forced to resign after sending a shirtless picture of himself to a woman on Craigslist. On the bright side, he DID… — Conan O'Brien
Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone… — Christopher Hitchens
Relationships, easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Because itâ€™s hard to keep up the lie! â€˜Cause you… — Chris Rock
Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible. — Judy Woodruff
I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them. — Ehud Olmert
I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our… — Yitzhak Rabin
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the… — Nadine Gordimer

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