Representatives Quotes

Other countries may triumph at global conferences where world representatives vote with their hands. But America seems to win whenever the world's people have an opportunity to vote with their feet.

It will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear..

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

It is rather shocking to note that opposition leaders, who are representatives of the wananchi (citizens), are themselves rejecting the participation of the wananchi in this major public issue.

Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.

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

The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

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

As debate is rare in the House of Representatives, since nearly all real business is done in the committees, it is very natural that such debate as there is should be very oratorical, should be

We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight.

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

Having contacts with Russian ambassador or with Russian representatives in this or that field does not mean interference in Americans' affairs - domestic affairs.

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

Donald Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.

I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

I have no clear idea about this development, however, I have full faith in the government's peace talks committee. I suggest TTP choose its representatives from among its own leadership

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincolns single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

The customer service representative hung up on me when I asked to talk to a supervisor.

Help! The customer service representative doesn't understand my problem.

A natural adversary is a customer service representative.

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

I don't think anyone is closer to the voters in Washington than members of the House of Representatives.

To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

Of course, it is always nice to poll well, but if you don't get representatives elected, then what is the point?

When it comes to our Constitution, judges perform, certainly, an important role. But the people, acting through their elected representatives, should play an even more important role.

Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought to be reflexive.

The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing.

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.

People underestimate the power we have to make real change for animals; it's with our vote. Representatives may not care about animals, but they care about our vote and that is our leverage.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

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