Representatives Quotes - Page 21

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

Ronald Reagan

Country, Men, People

A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.

Will Rogers

America, Evil, Temptation

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.

Gerald R. Ford

Love, Communication, House

Gerald R. Ford's address to a joint session of Congress, August 12, 1974.

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What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Dirty, Home, Army

Statement to the Senate, 1814.

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Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.

Saeb Erekat

Civilization, Israel, Sick

"Israel putting services in place in West Bank, Gaza" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

Todd Akin

Government, Self, Political

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The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Islamic, Differences, Government

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We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

Emperor Norton

Office, House, President

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To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.

Tony Stewart

Sports, Ambassadors, Honest

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Two forms or species are sympatric, if they occur together, that is if their areas of distribution overlap or coincide. Two forms (or species) are allapatric, if they do not occur together, that is if they exclude each other geographically. The term allopatric is primarily useful in denoting geographic representatives.

Ernst Mayr

Science, Two, Together

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To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Mean, Men, Giving

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As debate is rare in the House of Representatives, since nearly all real business is done in the committees, it is very natural that such debate as there is should be very oratorical, should be

D. W Brogan

Real, House, Done

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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

Alan Lightman

Believe, Reflection, Thinking

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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

Bob Brown

Democracy, Earth, Action

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.

Alessandra Ambrosio

Class, Leader, Design

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

Evan Bayh

Mirrors, Long, People

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A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

William Greider

Jobs, Government, Law

William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.

Gunnar Myrdal

Cutting, People, Majority

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In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'.

Swami Vivekananda

Mother, Rocks, Hands

Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.

Peter DeFazio

Years, Oregon, Diversity

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If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.

Nigel Lawson

Garden, People, Economic

Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, October 13, 1988.

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As God's representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading of the Holy Spirit, we speak as His voice on the earth. During strategic times, the Lord will prompt us to pray prayers that will bring breakthrough.

Barbara Wentroble

Prayer, Voice, Earth

Barbara Wentroble (2003). “Prophetic Intercession: Unlocking Miracles and Releasing the Blessings of God”, p.92, Gospel Light Publications

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Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.

Theodore Roosevelt

Government, Justice, Growth

Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “1903-1905”

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Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.

Theodore Roosevelt

War, Men, People

Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.52, Chartwell

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When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.

Emily Dickinson

Mean, Doe, States

Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.242, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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