Representatives Quotes - Page 8

• the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

  Margaret Halsey

  Government, Quality, Ashes

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Law, Judging, Bows

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Integrity, Mean

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• Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Morning, Government, Talking

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• I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?

  Lawrence Lessig

  Work Out, Choices, Democracy

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• I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most Americans would be surprised to learn just how much better we are at gov't than our gov't.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Thinking, Would Be, Citizens

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• So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Nsa, Important

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• Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.

  Arnold Aronson

  Art, Postmodernism, Bases

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• Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

  Noam Chomsky

  Intellectual, Said, Honorable

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, America, Democracy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Differences, America, Democracy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances on it. It's precisely because this is a representative republic that we have survived.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Majority Rule, America, Democracy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In America, we do not have a democracy. It's not what we have. We have a representative republic and therefore the rules and regulations that have been written to maintain it are not truly democratic - not purely democratic - in origin. They are about protecting and defending the establishment of this republic.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Democracy, Rules And Regulations

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kids, Thinking, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I haven't officially spoken in public about that issue, but I don't think it's a secret that Carlos [López-Cantera] has been a good friend of mine for many years. I respect him. I think he has done a great job as a state representative, as property appraiser in South Florida, and he's doing so now as lieutenant governor of Florida, and I think he would be a great senator, but I don't have an announcement for you today.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Good Friend, Thinking

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• We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.

  Indira Gandhi

  Struggle, Evil, Colonialism

  Source: sangam.org

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• We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Party, Two

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.

  Julian Assange

  Thinking, Dollars, Bills

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Hillary Clinton is the smooth central representation of all that, and 'all that' is more or less what is in power now in the United States. It's what we call the establishment or the DC consensus. One of the more significant Podesta emails that we released was about how the Obama cabinet was formed and how half the Obama cabinet was basically nominated by a representative from Citi Bank. This is quite amazing.

  Julian Assange

  United States, Half, Cabinets

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just treated me as they would anybody else. They had to deal with me as a representative of the United States of America, and the United States of America was too important to be dismissed or ignored on any grounds.

  Susan Rice

  Thinking, Numbers, America

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Because once the black man becomes the political master of his own community, it means that the politicians of that community will also be black, which also means that he then will be sending black representation or representatives not only to represent him at the local level and at the state level, but, but even at the federal level.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, Community

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I try to make Play Cloths really representative of me and my designers they look at my evolution as an artist and in fashion and they [zero] in to different details. I come into the office some days and they're like, 'What are those?" [I say,] "[These] are Philip Lim...[I'll] have on Philip Lim sweats and they go and put their spin on it.

  Pusha T

  Fashion, Zero, Artist

  Source: theneptunes.org

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• There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If you read Benjamin Franklin, who was one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment in the United States and the most distinguished representative of the movement here, he actually advised that the newly founded republic should block Germans and Swedes because they were too "swarthy" - dark.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Strong, Block

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Strong, Thinking

  Source: inters.org

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• I was really shocked after all of this talk about coal miners and all of this talk about Buy America, the Republicans and the House of Representatives gutted health care and pension protections for coal miners and removed the Buy America provision that had been put in the bill in a bipartisan basis.

  Claire McCaskill

  Coal Miners, America, House

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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