Representatives Quotes - Page 27

• My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.

  Robert Griffin III

  Jobs, School, College

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• The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

  Jesse Helms

  Winning, Secret, Opponents

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• If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

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• But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

  Tom Hanks

  Birthday, Thinking, Years

  "Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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• It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Fall, Easy, Ends

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• Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Patriotic, People

  Remarks at New York convention on adoption of federal Constitution, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 27 June 1788.

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• The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Country, Differences, Political

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• Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

  William Hague

  Good Luck, Political, Normal

  "Decca Aitkenhead meets William Hague". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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• Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

  Annie Besant

  Literature, Language, Institutions

  Annie Besant (1915). “How India Wrought for Freedom: The Story of the National Congress Told from Official Records”

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• In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.

  Doc Hastings

  Years, House, Care

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• Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Thinking, Views, Hands

  "Khrushchev Remembers; the Last Testament, Volume 2". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Strobe Talbott (Little, Brown), p. 415, 1974.

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• The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

  Charles Hodge

  Exercise, Names, People

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.16

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• In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Views, Portraits, May

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• I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Anniversary, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Cities

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• Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

  Franz Kafka

  Literature, Term

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Funny, Dog, People

  Letter to John Forster, 1850.

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• I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, President, Building

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• Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

  Jerome Kern

  Character, Play, Numbers

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• We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight.

  Dan Rather

  Baby, Race, House

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• We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.

  Andrea Jung

  Retail, Able, Discounts

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• My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to everyone and the anecdotes are not representative.

  Carl Hart

  Drug, Anecdotes, Use

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, Leader, Political

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to those who do choose. The Senate are still more disproportionate, and for long terms of irresponsibility. In the Executive, the Governor is entirely independent of the choice of the people, and of their control; his Council equally so, and at best but a fifth wheel to a wagon. In the Judiciary, the judges of the highest courts are dependent on none but themselves.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Long, People

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

  Irving Babbitt

  Order, Elements, Divine Will

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• Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of independent unions, etc.) are directly correlated with US government support. The linkage is not accidental; rather it is systematic. The reason is obvious enough. Client fascism often improves the business climate for American corporations, quite generally the guiding factor in foreign policy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independent, Violation Of Human Rights, Government

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