Representatives Quotes - Page 10

• It's very easy for me to begin to believe the publicity about myself, whether for or against. It can give you an absurd idea of yourself. I know that there's a fine balance between accepting your own power with grace and misusing it. And I don't ever want to portray myself as a representative of the voiceless. I'm scared of that.

  Arundhati Roy

  Believe, Ideas, Giving

  Source: progressive.org

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• Mexico has taken advantage of the United States. I don't blame the representatives and various presidents, et cetera, of Mexico. What I say is we shouldn't have allowed that to happen. It's not going to happen anymore.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, President, United States

  "Transcript of President-elect Trump's news conference" by Natalia Wojcik, Mack Hogan, Mike Juang, www.cnbc.com. January 11, 2017.

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• The Chinese are not stupid people. They're very smart people. They told me very, very distinctly that they cannot believe how stupid our representatives are in the United States. They cannot believe that they can continue to take all our jobs - you know, through the manipulation of the currency, of their currency, they make it almost impossible for our great companies to compete.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Smart, Stupid

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Being a party chair, you really have a chance to make a difference. but what the Democrats have to do is recognize and accept the fact that they're at their lowest point [in 2017] since 1928 in the United States House of Representatives and their lowest point since 1925 in states.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Differences, House

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It's not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government. And that is a threat that here in Europe, they feel acutely. They've seen their countries interfered with, bombarded by cyber-attacks, by Russian propaganda, indeed, by Russian troops.

  Adam Schiff

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Melania Trump] is a very, very strong advocate. I think she's a great representative for this country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think Melania Trump is going to be a fantastic first lady. She's going to be a tremendous representative of women and of the people. And helping her and working her will be Ivanka Trump, who is a fabulous person and a fabulous, fabulous woman.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, People, Fabulous

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• We’ve begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare…I know you can say, oh, Obamacare. I mean, they fill up our rallies with people that you wonder how they get there, but they are not the Republican people our representatives are representing.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Obamacare, People

  "Here Are Your Highlights of Today’s Trump Press Meltdown" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. February 16, 2017.

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• Israel is the representative of the United States in the Middle East. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language. If you read Sharon's statements and George W. Bush's statements, they're virtually identical.

  John Pilger

  Israel, Middle East, United States

  Source: progressive.org

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• Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

  David Eagleman

  Choices, Brain, Democracy

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I'm willing to be representative. I'm just an actor. I'm just playing a role, so even if it is a person I do not like, I would do that.

  Michael Keaton

  Roles, Actors, Willing

  Source: collider.com

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• A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

  Al Gore

  Democracy, Immune System, Free Press

  "In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "Morning Edition" with Audie Cornish, wksu.org. March 14, 2017.

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• I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was the leader of our revolution and who had the most outstanding role in the direction of the revolutionary struggle and directs the strategy of the Cuban government.

  Che Guevara

  Struggle, Government, Leader

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• When we talk about Cuban democracy we are referring to participatory democracy which is big difference with representative bourgeois democracy. Our is a democracy in which everything is consulted with the people; it is a democracy in which every aspect and important decision that has an impact in the life and society of the people, is done in consultation.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Differences, Impact, People

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Presidential, Democracy, Doe

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of Lords in England, that still represent the English feudal nobility in terms of positions above regional representatives, who are in the end the representatives supposedly elected by the population. Many mechanisms exist, but they are mechanisms to preserve the power of the wealthy classes, of the bourgeois classes that hold the power and rights above the rest of the society.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Class, Rights, House

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• As I've matured, the roles are a bit more layered and representative of where I am today as an older person with more responsibilities, perspective and hopefully not too many regrets.

  Barbara Crampton

  Regret, Responsibility, Hopefully Not

  Source: collider.com

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• [The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is essentially sending the government into shutdown and maybe default. But they won the majority of seats there because of various kinds of chicanery. They got a minority of the votes, but a majority of the seats, and they're using them to press forward an agenda which is extremely harmful to the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Party, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the
  representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.

  Joseph Stalin

  Agreement, Two, Mind

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• The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.politico.com

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• [ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive represented the monarchical estate, the senate the aristocratic estate, and the house of representatives the estate of the people.

  Gordon S. Wood

  People, House, Massachusetts

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I am not the leader; I am a representative of the leader. The leader is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whom we believe is very much alive, and is directing me from where he is.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Believe, Leader, Alive

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama brought into existence, including the thawing of the relationship between the United States and the people of Cuba. And because there is a Republican Senate, a Republican House of Representatives, a Republican president, it is more than likely that his legislative program will be accepted; his nominations to the Supreme Court may very well be accepted.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Order, People, House

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Government, Accountability

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from anonymous officials who have an ax to grind, not a single US official, not a single representative of the United States government, has ever pointed to a single case of individualized harm caused by these revelations. This, despite the fact that former NSA director Keith Alexander said this would cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Nsa, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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