“The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.” WayHouseLinesPartyPiecesPolicyVoteSenateRepresentativesLegislationReconciliationHouse Of Representatives Author:Neal Boortz
“It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.” WarCountryStatesHappensHouseUnitedPartyUnited StatesGrowingEventsRepublicanPaperAbsolutesMajorityAffairFinancialSenateRepresentativesDictatorSchemesRepublican PartyTreasuryHouse Of RepresentativesCaucusPaper Money Author:James A. Garfield
“Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.” PeopleWayPersonsPartyCandidatesVotingSubstitutesRepresentativesProgrammes Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general election retrieved its fortunes by shooting a sufficient number of the representatives of the other side to give it a majority. . . . Cromwell and Robespierre . . . acted likewise.” GivingYearsCountrySidesPartyNumbersYears AgoElectionMajorityFortuneShootingSufficientRepresentativesBeatenMarginsBalkansGeneral ElectionsCromwell Book:Unpopular Essays Source: Unpopular Essays
“The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].” PeopleHas BeensPartyListsCandidatesRepresentativesApproved Author:Leon Trotsky
“We're in the age of the selfie. It's just encouraging vanity. It's not even representative of anything except how you want people to perceive you. Think of when people are partying and having fun. They're like, "Hey, look at us!" You're obviously not having that much fun because otherwise you wouldn't be stopping to document it. It's stupid.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksAgeFunPartyStupidHeyVanityHaving FunPerceiveRepresentativesDocumentsStopping Author:Lily Allen