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Quotes About Representative

I'm the only president you've got.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The ideal politician is an ordinary representative of his class with extraordinary abilities.
~ Rick Perlstein
But if you want to understand what Agile is really all about, there is no better way than to study XP. XP is the prototype, and the best representative, of the essential core of Agile.
~ Robert C. Martin
Lastly, as a speaker and writer he was the foremost representative and personal symbol of the regime in its relations with its own people and the outside world.
~ Robert C. Tucker
When God gives you a passion for a particular cause, there is a reason for it, and that reason is not to keep it to yourself. You are called to be a representative for those in need.
~ Dillon Burroughs
The consequences of Adam and Eve's sin went far beyond their own banishment from the garden and the presence of God. God had appointed Adam as the federal head or legal representative of the entire human race. Consequently his fall brought guilt and depravity on all his descendants.
~ Jerry Bridges
The reality, though, is that our very best efforts at following his example are always imperfect and defiled by our sinful nature. By contrast, his obedience was always perfect and complete and never defiled. Therefore, we should always look first at what Jesus did as our representative before looking at him as our example.
~ Jerry Bridges
It is a sequence familiar in the capitals of other great empires: the extreme inequality created as loot from abroad pours in; the corruption of voting systems and of representative institutions; hoarse cries for change from the streets; the undertow of violence; the mailed fist as the army strides in to 'clean things up'. The imbalance of power created by empire, unbalances the empire itself.
~ Andrew Marr
I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.
~ Bella Abzug
Serving the people of Colorado's Third Congressional District is the greatest honor of my life.
~ Lauren Boebert
I hate to lose the constituency that I've worked with, but I've got 170,000 people to meet in my new district.
~ Albert Wynn
Sen. Clinton carried our district, and it is difficult to vote against your constituents.
~ Gene Green
in real-life situations we often make the opposite error: we assume that a sample or a series of trials is representative of the underlying situation when it is actually far too small to be reliable.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
In the bath the attitude toward sex is representative. No people have it more firmly in place. They are a bit puritanical sometimes, and a number of prudes exist, but there is no people less prurient. What they are prurient about is money. Some Japanese treat money as we treat sex. But, as for sex—well, there are no young bloods trying to peak over the partition.
~ Donald Richie
At the heart of this covenantal relationship is the issue of responsibility. Whenever there is genuine federal headship, the head as representative assumes responsibility for the spiritual condition of the members of the covenant body, and the organic connection applies in both directions. We are covenantal beings; we were created this
~ Douglas Wilson
The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and '80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.
~ Noah Feldman
I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
~ Anthony Weiner
If necessary, we can then contact the Smith Kline & French representative near here who can testify I never received another large bottle of sample Eskatrol.
~ Joe McGinniss
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
~ Franz Kafka
The focus for any trouble would be Agrippa Postumus, the last male representative of the Julian
~ Anthony Everitt
He was the man. He was the representative man. For the angels the testing had been individual; each angel who fell did so by his own decision.
~ Frank Sheed
the sin of the representative man.
~ Frank Sheed
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
~ Howard Mumford Jones