Representatives Quotes

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

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .

The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

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.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

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

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth.

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.

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

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

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

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.

Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet.

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

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