Representatives Quotes - Page 22

• Most people want their representatives to get something done.

  Joe Lieberman

  People, Done, Want

  "For Joe Lieberman, Solutions To Political Ills Don't Involve Labels". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. October 12, 2015.

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• Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got to eat the food.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Order, Cities, People

  "Star TV chef loves a getaway on Spanish island of Ibiza". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 20, 2011.

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• If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.

  Kirk Douglas

  Apology, Thinking, House

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Too Much, Pressure

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.406, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation,... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, People, Interesting

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• The benefits and $174,000 per year salary that we get, we earn. It's not elaborate, it's just a bunch of poppycock that a lot of people have spread around trying to get us to hate our own government and our government representatives.

  Hank Johnson

  Hate, Government, Years

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• Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Population, Rich

  "NSA surveillance is an attack on American citizens, says Noam Chomsky" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2013.

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• Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor

  James Madison

  Rich, Poor

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.263

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• And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Public Opinion

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.

  Bassam Tibi

  Children, Taken, Islamic

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The cardinal points are a direct reference to the astrological colures. The Cardinals surround the Pope as the cardinal points surround the sun. The sun casts its rays on the Houses as it passes, turning them crimson. The color worn by the physical Cardinals is red, to symbolize that they are illuminated by their proximity to the Pope, the representative of God on earth. The word Pope, may also be a derivative of the word in Egyptian for the evil serpent Apep, Apophis or Apopsa (See Poop Deck and Pupa, and Pepsi, Pepsid, Dr. Pepper, Sgt. Pepper, etc,).

  Michael Tsarion

  Sgt Pepper, Color, Evil

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• I know people who support Hamas but they never got involved in terrorist attacks, for example... They follow Hamas because they love God and they think that Hamas represents God. They don't have knowledge, they don't know the real God and they never studied Christianity. But Hamas, as representative for Islam, it's a big problem.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Son of Hamas Leader Turns Back on Islam and Embraces Christianity". Interview with Jonathan Hunt, www.foxnews.com. August 12, 2008.

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• Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Actors, Mimicking, Might

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• My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.

  William Graham Sumner

  Three, Campaigns, Pieces

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “War and Other Essays”

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• The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it has given completely to the Senate and House of Representatives. It has declared that the Executive powers shall be vested in the President, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the Senate, and it has vested the Judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the Senate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Justice, House

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.465

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• Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.

  William J. Clinton

  Beautiful, Fun, Crazy

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• In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general election retrieved its fortunes by shooting a sufficient number of the representatives of the other side to give it a majority. . . . Cromwell and Robespierre . . . acted likewise.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Party, Years

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.136, Routledge

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• You are a true representative of the spirituality of our home, India. Ever since I met you for the first time, the link between us has always grown in strength. I want to say how much I value the meaning of that bond, because it is one of true dedication to the service of God.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Home, Dedication, India

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• Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural choice. One can imagine what would have happened if members of each nation moving to the U.S. had spoken only their own tongues and refused to learn English.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Moving, Choices, Together

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• I'm a representative of something that's greater than myself. When you see me out there on the track, I'm not just representing myself or my country, I'm representing Christ and what He's done through me. I have a responsibility to show His love and show others what He's done for me. It's also freed me up.

  Elana Meyers

  Country, Responsibility, Track

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• We're talking about the Olympics. We're talking about trying to win the gold medal. All of these things can be overwhelming. But regardless of whether I win a gold medal or never compete again, I just have to trust that God has a plan for my life and I'm called to be His representative through the sport and outside of the sport.

  Elana Meyers

  Sports, Winning, Talking

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were best sellers and they specifically told the story of history from the point of view of women.

  Colin Callender

  Queens, Drama, Book

  Source: deadline.com

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• I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.

  Ben Zobrist

  Jesus, Trying, Christ

  Interview with Brad Wolff, bleacherreport.com. August 24, 2010.

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• It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.

  Edmund Burke

  Communication, Wish, Attention

  Edmund Burke (2013). “A Letter to a Noble Lord and Other Writings”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

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• We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or any set of men take from us without our consent or that of our representatives one shilling in the pound we have not security for the remaining nineteen. We owe to our mother country the duty of subjects but will not pay her the submission of slaves.

  George Mason

  Mother, Country, Taken

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