Representatives Quotes - Page 23

• An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Two, Office, House

  Remarks in House of Representatives, 15 Apr. 1970

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• Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of human study will be enabled more effectually than heretofore to keep pace with our theoretical knowledge of its principles and laws, through the complete control which the engine gives us over the executive manipulation of algebraical and numerical symbols.

  Ada Lovelace

  Law, Giving, Principles

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• The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, People, Lists

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• Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich like a violin!

  Ed Crane

  Years, House, President

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• In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

  James Monroe

  Children, Republic, Importance

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• I really feel incredibly fortunate to not be stereotyped. And it's something that I and my representatives are very keen on preserving.

  Corey Stoll

  Feels, Fortunate

  Source: collider.com

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• For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel; it means have a place and get involved in what can be done in that place. That's the only way we're going to have a representative democracy in America. Nobody stays anywhere long enough to take responsibility for a local community.

  Gary Snyder

  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

  "High peak haikus". Interview with James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2005.

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• [American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is incorrect.

  Dave Barry

  Law, Advice, Way

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• Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.

  Mao Zedong

  States, Should, Institutions

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• Well, I would say that we've got to redefine democracy, that we have been stuck in concepts of representative democracy, that we believe that it's getting other people to do things for us that we progress.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Believe, People, Democracy

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• As calls come to us for church service by the Lord's representatives, it is natural for us to wonder why we have been selected. The Lord has made it plain that every individual has been blessed and endowed with certain gifts and talents. And while there are many gifts, yet 'To some is given one, and to some is given another, that all may be profited thereby.' (D&C 46:12)

  Henry D. Taylor

  Blessed, Church Service, Gifts And Talents

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• It is sweet to remember that the exaltation of Christ in heaven is a representative exaltation. He is exalted at the Father's right hand, and though as Jehovah He had eminent glories, in which finite creatures cannot share, yet as the Mediator, the honours which Jesus wears in heaven are the heritage of all the saints. It is delightful to reflect how close is Christ's union with His people. We are actually one with Him; we are members of His body; and His exaltation is our exaltation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Jesus, Father

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• Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt this, I congratulate you on not having a television.

  Fred Reed

  Father, Government, Doubt

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• Ours is a representative republic with a Constitution in which is recognized the natural law and the natural rights of man. It is a republic with a spiritual foundation characterized by freedom - freedom for the individual and for his society.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Men, Rights

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.

  Robert Bork

  Law, Judging, Decision

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

  Allan H. Meltzer

  Government, Growth, Flaws

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• You have to realize that people who bother to log on to anything and talk about a television show is a very specific fraction of the audience. It's not the general audience, so you can't get too crazy listening to just that. That's not representative, but they are the most dedicated.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Crazy, People, Listening

  Source: collider.com

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• Military and absolutist regimes are undoubtedly well fitted to get the jump on an unsuspecting or unprepared enemy; but the history of modern warfare proves that they cannot win over representative governments in the long run, provided that people behind those governments have the heart to sustain initial punishment, and both the will and the resources to fight back.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Running, Military, Heart

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1975). “History of United States Naval Operations in World War II”

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• Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Crush, Men, Evil

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• We're in the age of the selfie. It's just encouraging vanity. It's not even representative of anything except how you want people to perceive you. Think of when people are partying and having fun. They're like, "Hey, look at us!" You're obviously not having that much fun because otherwise you wouldn't be stopping to document it. It's stupid.

  Lily Allen

  Fun, Stupid, Party

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• One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appointed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, from interstate corporations; and a similar provision could not fail to be useful within the States.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Men, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Democracy, Breaking Down

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard to imagine a Democratic member of Congress urging constituents to be "armed and dangerous" without being ostracized; but Representative Michele Bachmann, who did just that, is a rising star in the G.O.P.

  Paul Krugman

  Stars, Balance, Toxic

  "Climate of Hate". www.nytimes.com. January 9, 2011.

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• You can be Mitt Romney with three marriages and a disastrous speakership, kicked out of the speakership, being reprimanded by the House of Representatives and fined and all that stuff, it doesn`t matter if you sing the right tune with the right tone these days.

  Chris Matthews

  House, Tunes, Three

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When Dylann Roof walked into a black church, he wanted to start a race war. We didn't let him do that because we didn't cast him as a representative of the white race. We didn't give into his narrative. We did the exact opposite. And I think that we have to be careful not to give into the apocalyptic narrative of ISIS that wants to start a war between Muslims and everybody else.

  Chuck Todd

  War, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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