Representatives Quotes - Page 16

• 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 to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Stupid, Race, Government

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• Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

  Michael McCaul

  Anniversary, Real, Hero

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• 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 as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Nature, Men, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.208, Library of America

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• 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 surprise his wife for Valentines Day.

  Conan O'Brien

  Valentines Day, Wife, Sides

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• 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 who actually embodies all of those qualities.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stupid, Taken, Thinking

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. May 18, 2004.

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• Relationships, easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Because it’s hard to keep up the lie! ‘Cause you can’t get nobody being you. You got to lie to get somebody. You can’t get nobody looking like you look, acting like you act, sounding like you sound. When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative!

  Chris Rock

  Lying, Acting, Sound

  "'It's the White BET Awards!' Chris Rock's funniest jokes ahead of his Oscars hosting stint". www.mirror.co.uk. February 28, 2016.

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• Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.

  B. J. Novak

  Love You, Lines, Thanks

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• Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.

  Judy Woodruff

  Organization, News, Should

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• 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

  Israel, Government, Serious

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• Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.

  Adyashanti

  Heart, Easy, Goodness

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• Harry Truman once said, 'There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests, and that the interests of the great mass of the other people - the 150 or 160 million - is the responsibility of the president of the United States, and I propose to fulfill it.'

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, People, Presidential

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• I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

  Ed Royce

  House, House Of Representatives, Chairman

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• The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.

  Hermann Broch

  Men, Style, He Man

  Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.887, Vintage

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• Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.

  Simon Bolivar

  Government, Perfect, Political

  Simon Bolivar's letter from Jamaica, Summer 1815.

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• This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

  Bella Abzug

  House, House Of Representatives

  Bella S. Abzug, Mim Kelber (1984). “Gender gap: Bella Abzug's guide to political power for American women”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

  Benjamin Tucker

  People, Principles, Band

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give them a definite shape. Its mental expression is dead dogma; its physical manifestation of life, brute force. This lack of intelligence in its endeavours leaves its imprint likewise on the persons of its representatives, gradually making them mentally inferior and brutal, even though they were originally excellently endowed. Nothing dulls the mind and soul of man as does the eternal monotony of routine, and power is essentially routine.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Men, Expression, Law

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• The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest rate of interest - stand ready, at all times, to lend money in unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Thinking, Doors

  Lysander Spooner (2013). “No Treason”, p.50, Read Books Ltd

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• I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

  Eric Lindros

  Safety, Parent, Interest

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• FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: it’s one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong.

  PZ Myers

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense.

  Massad Ayoob

  Fate, America, Tissues

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• I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Thinking, Land, Fraternity

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• And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Two, Acting, Sitting

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• I am very optimistic about - about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.

  Joe Biden

  Summer, Moving, Optimistic

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• Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.

  Martin Van Buren

  Two, House, Wish

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.14

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