Quotes About Representatives

I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.

All our elected representatives - and our government - have a responsibility to keep their people safe and well.

The beauty of our democracy is that the final authority is not the president of the United States, but instead the American public through their duly elected representatives in the United States Congress.

As representatives, we are accountable first not to our party, not to our leadership, not to the chief executive, but just to our constituents.

The framers understood that the momentous decision to go to war requires the informed consent of the American people, expressed through their elected representatives.

People approach politicians with lot of hopes, particularly if they are elected representatives.

I believe it lies in the interests of Poland that our representatives are in the most prestigious positions, both in the European and global arena.

The people of South Jersey, and local, state, and federal Representatives will not allow a permanent closure of the Atlantic City Rail Line.

The president has immense powers, but he cannot spend money unless we, the people's representatives in Congress, have agreed that he can.

Education is all about making sure that the next generation know what our representatives think they should know.

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

Historically speaking, racists have a worse record of patriotism than the representatives of all other international ideologies together, and they were the only ones who consistently denied the great principle upon which national organizations of peoples are built, the principle of equality and solidarity of all peoples guaranteed by the idea of mankind.

A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

Similarly, if the American people and their representatives do not know and understand what is in our Constitution, others will take advantage of them. Only when we understand the law of our land can we effectively hold our representatives accountable. Knowledge is power, and we must refuse to be bullied.

My position has always been that the House of Representatives does not take reservations. It's walk-in only.

I am not going to lie: I know that there are clubs that want to sign me and can match Real Madrid's demands. But that's up to my representatives and the club. I will stay if the club wants me to stay.

We tend to think of the House as a less historically significant legislative body than the Senate. There are more representatives than there are senators, they're up for re-election every two years, and many come and go without having much of an impact.

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

who want to run as MPs?' Janine said, clarifying her shorthand. 'And the current MP for this area suddenly announced that he is retiring next year, and

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

Of the House of Representatives, Rep. James G. Blaine later remarked, "There is no place where so little deference is paid to reputation previously acquired, or to eminence won outside; no place where so little consideration is shown for the feelings or the failures of beginners. What a man gains, he gains by sheer force of his own character,

Satan's method has often been to imitate God. Satan is still using this form of deception, and often his representatives are being disguised as ministers of righteousness.

The Calvinist nobles convey their objections by throwing two imperial representatives out the window of Prague Castle in the famous "defenestration of Prague.