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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.

  Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

  Law, Opposites, Action

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• During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Numbers, Body

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• If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here.

  June Jordan

  Names, Voice, Diversity

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.154, Basic Books

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• The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense merit was that it enabled a large constituency to exert indirect power, and thus made possible the distribution of political responsibility throughout the great states of modern times.

  Bertrand Russell

  Responsibility, Government, Political

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Government, Long

  "Obama at War". "Frontline", www.pbs.org.

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• The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Jobs, Fascination, Illusion

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• Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected no less in America than elsewhere. That this virulence breaks out most readily and commonly against colored persons in this country, is due of course to the fact that they are, generally speaking, weak and can be imposed upon with impunity. Bullies are always cowards at heart.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Heart, Sharks

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• ... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Ambition, Race, Role Models

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Baby, Sex

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

  Mark McKinnon

  Democracy, Process, Messy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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