Representatives Quotes - Page 28

• At the time, Jean-Claude [Juncker] was already an important man in Brussels. I was a young representative in the European Parliament. We talked for a long time and from that point on, our connection became increasingly deep. But our working-class origins are at least as important to our bond.

  Martin Schulz

  Men, Class, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Race, Athletic, Type

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• A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Attitude, Character

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• The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.

  Juan Williams

  Father, Party, Garden

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• Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Government, Share

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 9 (1792)

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• Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.53, Ravenio Books

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• She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Too Much, Moments

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.33, Dial Press

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• Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

  Machado de Assis

  Dream, Finishing, Lines

  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.13, University of Texas Press

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• The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.

  Mike Lofgren

  Party, Europe, Political

  "Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult". www.truth-out.org. September 3, 2011.

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• An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

  William Golding

  Conscious, Treated, Oneself

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• Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

  Barbara Kruger

  Real, Technology, Made

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.220, MIT Press

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• I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.

  Robert M. Morgenthau

  Fate, Hands, Judging

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• I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee.

  Fred Ikle

  Military, Presidential, Administration

  "Ideology of the Reagan Administration". WGBH Educational Foundation Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 24, 1987.

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• Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

  Albert Einstein

  Party, People, Political

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, Two, Numbers

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• The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected. Of 435 members of the House of Representatives, only four incumbents lost to nonincumbents of the other party. In all, 96 percent of incumbents were re-elected. (It was only 90 percent in 1992 and 1982 after the previous reapportionments.)

  Dick Morris

  Party, House, Leaving

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• If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it. If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the Legislature as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Class, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.265

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• I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

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• In the very next election, the American people elected 63 new Republicans to the House of Representatives - the largest sweep of Congress for any party since 1948. Even liberal Massachusetts elected a Republican senator solely because of his vow to vote against Obamacare.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Obamacare, People

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• Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television. We find them in movies. We find them all over the place.

  Matthew Specktor

  Needs, Television, Figures

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even though the people in the Occupy Movement are really on their side - not in terms of their behavior, but in terms of their economic status, in terms of who the police are in society and how much they're paid, and if you boil it down to the economics of it, the police should be out there marching with the Occupy Movement.

  Oren Moverman

  People, Police, Ironic

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

  Luis Gutierrez

  House, Demand, Building

  "Immigration Battle". "FRONTLINE", www.pbs.org. October 20, 2015.

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• To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

  Will Oldham

  Past, Littles, Dimensions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I could point to him as a representative. Someone who put my struggle and my worldview into poetry.

  Erik Parker

  Struggle, Reality, Done

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• [Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is best informed and, therefore, most dependable within narrow limits.

  Sam Brownback

  Body, Limits, Judgment

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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