Quotes About Representation

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.

Donald Trump represents and speaks for people who get nothing from government.

A strong government is where the will of the people matters, where the voice of the people is heard and where the dreams of the people are fulfilled.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

One of the great things about running with Ajamu Baraka is that we speak to all of America.