Representatives Quotes - Page 18

• This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  House, Important, Addresses

  7 Copy quote

• On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Britain and the United States, in order to discuss saving the Jews of Europe. In fact, the participants did everything in their power to avoid dealing with the problem.

  Ariel Sharon

  Order, Europe, United States

  "Anger amid the tears - did the allies do enough to save Jews?" by Owen Bowcott, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

  David Suzuki

  Government, Giving, Desire

  6 Copy quote

• Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.

  Matt Taibbi

  Cynical, Political, United States

  4 Copy quote

• I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

  Niecy Nash

  Thinking, Would Be, Television

  4 Copy quote

• For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

  John Steinbeck

  Yellowstone, Civilization, America

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.91, Penguin

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can’t believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can’t believe you didn’t know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Men, Stupidity

  4 Copy quote

• ...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

  Chris Crutcher

  Educational, Heart, Men

  Chris Crutcher (2002). “Whale Talk”, Laurel Leaf

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even if they were willing to let you remove your Pride from the council's collective influence—and they won't be—there's a reason the council exists. We band together because there's strength in numbers. Because in its unperverted state, the council ensures representative government and a pooling of resources and ideas that benefits everyone." "Yes, but the operative word there is unperverted, and right now, you guys are operating under the thumb of the biggest power-pervert ever to swish his tail in the U.S. He's like Hitler with fur.

  Rachel Vincent

  Pride, Government, Ideas

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.226, MIRA

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

  19 Copy quote

• Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

  Steig Larsson

  Doctors, Earth, Arguing

  4 Copy quote

• I think Bob appreciated my outfit. He made me buy the more expensive pendant. You might think that was to my disadvantage, but I accept that status comes with a price.” “Not usually so immediately.” I shake my head. “You better not be hitting on federal agent ladies. They’ll arrest you.” His grin widens. “I like handcuffs.” I groan. “There is something seriously wrong with you.” “Nothing that a night being worked over by a hot representative of justice couldn’t fix.

  Holly Black

  Night, Thinking, Justice

  11 Copy quote

• He’s not feeling well,” Clary said, catching at Simon’s wrist. “We’re going.” “No,” Simon said. “No, I — I need to talk to him. To the Inquisitor." Robert reached into his jacket and drew out a crucifix. Clary stared in shock as he held it up between himself and Simon. “I speak to the Night’s Children Council representative, or to the head of the New York clan,” he said. “Not to any vampire who comes to knock at my door —“ Simon reached out and plucked the cross out of Robert’s hand. “Wrong religion,” he said.

  Cassandra Clare

  New York, Children, Night

  4 Copy quote

• Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Class, Design

  12 Copy quote

• If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

  Robert Novak

  House, Political, Politics

  16 Copy quote

• If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Glowing, Cities, Would Be

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

  161 Copy quote

  Show source

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that and then I put it out there and say to you, "What do you think?" I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Trying, Literature

  "I'm returning to India, deal with it - Salman Rushdie to NDTV". Interview with Barkha Dutt, www.ndtv.com. January 25, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

  Colin Powell

  Opportunity, Government, People

  8 Copy quote

• I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Messengers, Speak

  4 Copy quote

• At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Exercise, Iraq, House

  8 Copy quote

• Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

  Robert Bork

  Democracy, Majority, Way

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

  John O. Brennan

  People, Important, Demand

  Remarks by the President in Nomination of Secretary of Defense and CIA Director, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 7, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  Edmund Burke

  Sacrifice, Government, Political

  Speech to electors of Bristol, 3 Nov. 1774

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

  George H. W. Bush

  House, Very Happy, Has Beens

  "George H.W. Bush". From the collection: The Presidents, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm the audience's representative on earth.

  Michael Caine

  Acting, Earth, Audience

  7 Copy quote