Quotes About Representative

Naturally the principles vary with the party; but owing to the mere fact that the individual members are a part of a crowd, they are always inclined to exaggerate the worth of their principles, and to push them to their extreme consequences. In consequence parliaments are more especially representative of extreme opinions.

I just wish I could walk into my Senator's office and say, "Senator Dude, Um, we have a problem with these sicko scientists…" But then again, I don't think we have a Senator, do we? Is there a state where mutant freaks are represented? If so, let me know.

Official time is not fair to the government or the taxpayer and works solely to the benefit of labor unions and employees who serve as its representative or steward.

I'm blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate.

People vote for whom they believe will be the best president and representative for our country. The First Lady is not on the ballot.

My background in financial services and my experience as a state representative have given me the ability to identify our country's fiscal problems and find steps to remedy them.

In whatever manner the separate parts of a constitution may be arranged, there is one general principle that distinguishes freedom from slavery, which is, that all hereditary government over a people is to them a species of slavery, and representative government is freedom.

it is repugnant to the principles of representative government that a body should give power to itself.

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

It is the old masculine spirit of government as authority which is so slow in adapting itself to the democratic idea of government as service. That it should be a representative government they grasp, but representative of what? of the common will, they say; the will of the majority;--never thinking that it is the common good, the common welfare, that government should represent.

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.

Weil das menschliche Wesen alles, was im Himmel und auf Erden ist, in sich trägt, wird der Mensch als ein Universum in sich selbst bezeichnet. Gott sagt in Bezug auf den Menschen im Koran: "Wir haben ihn zu unserem Kalifen gemacht." (Koran 2:30) Mit Kalif ist gemeint, dass der Mensch ein Repräsentant Gottes, ein Anführer ist, unter dessen Obhut das Universum gestellt ist; denn das menschliche Wesen ist selbst ein Universum. (S. 124)

For the first time that evening, a small idea was uttered by the representative of this extraordinary company. Schmidt spoke of invigorating the Google PAC, and pushing harder to get their side of the issue better heard. And I thought, Wow. This is a Google solution to this, the most important problem facing this republic? This the most they can imagine?

But it is to say that a basic idea of a representative democracy—one that argues over fundamental choices of policy, through the battle between differently committed representatives—is not the reality of our democracy anymore. We've settled into what Francis Fukuyama calls a "vetocracy," where change of almost any kind, whether from the Right or the Left, is practically always stopped.

Nominating Susan Rice for Secretary of State is a mistake not just because of her Sunday show deceptions but because her tenure as America's representative to the U.N. has been unworthy of a promotion.

We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.

With Brexit, and I think the extraordinary strain it's put on our constitution and our representative democracy, I do sometimes feel like I'm in the middle of the 17th Century, when you are standing up for the rights of Parliament.

The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

I am an elected official. I am a parent.

I was sent to Washington by the people of the state of Ohio. We have a diverse state. I am advocate and a fighter for this state.

When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them, you're meeting their representative.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

the kowtow was symbolically voluntary: it was the representative deference of a people that had been not so much conquered as awed. The tribute presented to China on such occasions was often exceeded in value by the Emperor's return gifts.

Jesus was no school-man, was no ecclesiastic, was no heresiarch. He spoke the language and the truth and the religion of a simple, artless, deep-centered representative of universal humanity--true always, everywhere, and for all.