“If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.” IfsKnowsWantMeanImportantRunningHouseTermRaceAreasLocalsRepresentativesHouse Of RepresentativesReelection Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by his representatives, hath given his consent; and this, I will venture to assert, is the great basis of British freedom; it is interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the Constitution must be destroyed.” PersonsImportantLawLostGivenSubjectsBasesConstitutionBritishDestroyedPatrioticRepresentativesVentureConsent Author:Joseph Warren
“Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.” PeopleKnowsTryingImportantGovernmentRunningHouseRolesRepresentativesChamberHouse Of Representatives Author:Tony Abbott
“An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which is a systematic study of how key representatives of America's rising tide of religion attempted a theoretical understanding of, and practical response to, America's rising tide of commerce.” ImportantAmericaUnderstandingStudySubjectsKeysResponseAccomplishPracticalsRisingContributionTidesRepresentativesCommerceTheoreticalNeglectedSystematicImportant Contributions Author:Mark Noll
“The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.” FirstsArtImportantBookStatesLordWrittenInfluenceTenProfoundSentencesRevolutionaryRejectionPassagesGoddessRepresentativesCommandmentsTestamentBansOld TestamentHebrewAlphabetTen CommandmentsHebrew Bible Author:Leonard Shlain
“The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience.” YearsWellsImportantLightPastLevelsCommonShareProveStandardsDefinedReasonableFiftyRepresentativesProfitablePortfoliosPast Experiences Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel