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• The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.

  Donald Trump

  People, Answers, Silent

  "Trump Fires Back at Obama Campaign Smear" by Steve Coz, www.newsmax.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

  Harry S. Truman

  Thinking, America, House

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Truman Speaks”, New York : Columbia University Press

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• In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.

  Peggy Noonan

  Israel, Rome, Judging

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• I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than that, I have faith in you, the youth of America, to build even more securely on the foundations laid by the faith and devotion of your pioneer fathers.

  Harold B. Lee

  Father, Government, Land

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• Our opponent [ Representative John Lewis] is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, America, Pals

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Hints

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.168, Graphic Arts Books

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• External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself.

  Amy Tan

  Responsibility, Unique, People

  American Acheivement interview, June 28, 1996.

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• However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it is they who gradually introduce reality which is so often the enemy of impulse. There is anger with mother and hatred is somewhere even when there is absolutely no doubt of love that is mixed with adoration.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Mother, Jobs, Reality

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• The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Land, America

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• But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Reason Why, Vote

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.273, Bantam Classics

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• The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, People, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.328, Modern Library

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• The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Heaven, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.429

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• All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the boards, firing away at the rapt groundlings with his blank verses, not less of a word-slinger and spellbinder than the Bard himself and therefore not to be considered too curiously on such matters as relevance, coherence, consistency, propriety, sanity, common decency.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Civilization, Common Decency, Consistency

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• A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

  Mark McKinnon

  Democracy, Process, Messy

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• Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate.

  Mike Beebe

  Phones, Doors, Office

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• The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Integrity, Men, Average

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• An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

  Gerald R. Ford

  House, Majority, Moments

  Remarks in House of Representatives, 15 Apr. 1970

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• Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Heaven, Tasks

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• Of course, it is always nice to poll well, but if you don't get representatives elected, then what is the point?

  Marta Andreasen

  Nice, Polls, Wells

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• I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. Thats what I will be above and beyond everything else.

  Grace Meng

  Jobs, Titles, Definitions

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• The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Honesty, Character, Males

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• There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action - of not going through the forms that the society offers you, of representative government, of voting, of legislation, but directly taking power.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Direct Action, Government

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in terms of electoral politics, but thinking in terms of organizing social movements, organizing in the work place, organizing in the neighborhood, organizing collectives that can become strong enough to eventually take over - first to become strong enough to resist what has been done to them by authority, and second, later, to become strong enough to actually take over the institutions.

  Howard Zinn

  Strong, Thinking, Government

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

  George Eliot

  Prayer, Reflection, Roots

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.552, Broadview Press

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• Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.

  Henry Rollins

  War, Government, Media

  "Hard Travelin' With Henry Rollins: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jason Leopold, www.truth-out.org. August 27, 2012.

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