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Quotes About Representative

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
~ Fidel Castro
Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows.
~ Bernie Sanders
You get more diversity and creativity in your problem solving, and you end up having a much better and more representative approach to solving the challenges faced by the population you serve.
~ Justin Trudeau
It's been an honour to represent Orpington for 9 years & to serve as a minister under three PMs.
~ Jo Johnson
Yet the fundamental difference today is that one party is now beholden to a movement that does not appear to have much respect for representative democracy.
~ Katherine Stewart
We may conclude that a moderate futurist interpretation understands the seven letters to be addressed to seven historical churches that are representative of the entire church. The seals represent the forces in history, however long it lasts, by which God works out his redemptive and judicial purposes in history leading up to the end. The events beginning with chapter 7 lie in the future and will attend the final disposition of the divine will for human history.
~ George Eldon Ladd
An apostle has the primary function of being a delegate of the risen Christ, going as his representative and in his authority. This idea of an authoritative representative derives from the Jewish institution of šelû?îm or authorized messengers representing a person or a group of persons. "A man's representative (š?lî??) is to be considered as the man himself.
~ George Eldon Ladd
Señor Norman Muller, debo informarle, en nombre del presidente de los Estados Unidos, de que le han escogido para representar al electorado norteamericano el martes 4 de noviembre de 2008.
~ Isaac Asimov
Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.
~ Alexandra Petri
I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.
~ Steve Ballmer
I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position.
~ Tim Scott
The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth. Only Iceland's Althing, founded in 930 A.D., is older.
~ Charles C. Mann
August 31, 1142. If Mann and Fields are correct, this was the date on which Tododaho accepted the alliance. The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth. Only Iceland's Althing, founded in 930 A.D., is older.
~ Charles C. Mann
Man could no longer be regarded as the Lord of Creation, a being apart from the rest of nature. He was merely the representative of one among many Families of the order Primates in the class Mammalia.
~ Charles Darwin
The whole point of a representative sample is that it looks like the underlying population.
~ Charles Wheelan
Virginia law, in 1831, is instructive and representative.
~ Toni Morrison
However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
~ Knut Hamsun
There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
Centuries later, John Rawls wrote of the same possibility: "The benefits from discussion lie in the fact that even representative legislators are limited in knowledge and the ability to reason. No one of them knows everything the others know, or can make all the same inferences that they can draw in concert. Discussion is a way of combining information and enlarging the range of arguments.
~ Cass R. Sunstein
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
~ Sir Henry Wotton
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 this country have.
~ Harry S. Truman
There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.
~ James Bovard
In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.
~ Jonathan Dee
Ultimately, we will never have a more inclusive and representative delegation - we will not change the complexion, the culture, or the representation - if we do not primary Democrats.
~ Ayanna Pressley