“And at the UN she took the advice - she had to take the advice - of the State Department and the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations. They keep our UN representatives on a very short leash. She did as she was told, and voted as she was told.” StatesAdviceOrganizationInternationalDepartmentRepresentativesSecretaryAssistantsLeashes Author:William A. Rusher
“She was obviously useful at the UN because she had a public persona before she ever got there. She was well known. She was a spokeswoman for many important things. When she got there, what she said was paid attention to, undoubtedly much more than would have been if just Joe Blow had been made our representative to the United Nations. In that sense, I think it was useful to have her there.” IfsThinkingWellsHas BeensMadeSaidImportantNationsUnitedAttentionKnownPaidImportant ThingsBlowRepresentativesWell KnownUnited NationsPersona Author:William A. Rusher
“You're often looking at writing from writers who, for the most part, are working in forms that traditionally fit into other genres. But sometimes, in the midst of their better-known stuff, there's this wayward thing, and because it's wayward it isn't considered representative of their work, so it falls through the cracks.” WritingSometimesFormFallStuffKnownFitGenreMidstCracksRepresentatives Author:John D'Agata
“Nevada is certainly more representative of what the entire country looks like demographically, so you really are testing how these candidates are doing across ethnicities, across genders, across cultures.” LooksCountryCultureGenderCandidatesRepresentativesTestingEthnicityNevada Author:Lucy Flores
“My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem that sparks the ethical project lies in our limited responsiveness to one another. The only way we have to address that problem is through a representative, informed, and engaged conversation.” WayProblemLyingSocialEasyAnimalConversationProjectsFundamentalsEngagedAddressesEthicalSparksRepresentativesAdaptationSocial LifeNaturalismPredicamentsResponsiveness Author:Philip Kitcher
“If there are to be appropriate judgments about what questions are significant, you need both the informed views of scientists who know what has been achieved and what future developments are promising and the reflective judgments of representatives of different groups who can identify what kinds of information are most urgently needed.” IfsKnowsNeedsKindHas BeensDifferentViewsGroupsInformationDevelopmentNeededJudgmentScientistSignificantAppropriateRepresentativesFuture Development Author:Philip Kitcher
“It's a piece that is so interactive, and relies so much on these five men in the room, that I think will appeal to the life experiences every person has, in some small way. Every aspect of the play will in some way touch somebody or they'll know someone that has a likeness... very representative of real life.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayPersonsRealPlayRoomsFivePiecesAspectReal LifeAppealsRelyLife ExperienceRepresentativesInteractive Author:Sean Mahon
“Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.” PersonsBlackEqualRepresentativesBlack Person Author:Alex Haley
“I don't think we should take the emotional reactions of a few people as more representative than those of the millions of people who took to the street in a non-violent way against dictators.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldMillionsStreetsEmotionalViolentReactionsRepresentativesDictatorNon ViolentEmotional Reactions Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I think what Donald Trump is saying to people is that America has way more leverage at the negotiating table than America has used in the past. And whether you like it or not, the government and trade representatives have made the decision not to use that leverage. And it has had an economic impact on the lower and middle class.” PeopleThinkingWayMadeUseGovernmentAmericaPastUsedDecisionClassEconomicMiddleTrumpTablesTradeImpactMiddle ClassRepresentativesYou Like ItNegotiating Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“Imagine a German as president of the European Commission. If he or she goes to some particular country and says do this or that, it won't be very well received. The president quickly ends up being the evil German. But if the president is elected by and controlled by 700 representatives from all EU countries, that legitimizes him or her in a very different way.” IfsWayWellsDifferentEndsCountryEvilPresidentImagineParticularDifferent WaysControlledRepresentatives Author:Martin Schulz
“Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.” PeopleValuesMiddleConservativeExtremesRepresentativesAustralianConnotationMiddle Of The Road Author:Eric Abetz
“What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation, and lead it in a way that keeps it together as a single nation and where all parts of the nation - Shia, Sunni and Kurds - are able to live free and in peace and believe that their interests are represented by the government.” PeopleWayShouldBelieveGovernmentWould BeAbleTogetherNationsInterestCommittedRepresentativesLive FreeKurdsShiaRepresentative Government Author:Colin Powell
“It is the US government's desire for the Iraqi people to lead themselves, not for any outside power to be the leadership for Iraq in the future. There may be some transition period where the international community would have to help the Iraqi people put in place a representative government. But that is the goal, not for the United States, or any other nation, for that matter, who might be in such a coalition, if one is formed, to serve as the leader of the Iraqi nation.” PeopleIfsMayMatterStatesHelpingGovernmentMightDesireNationsGoalCommunityUnitedLeaderUnited StatesPeriodsInternationalIraqTransitionRepresentativesCoalitionsInternational CommunityRepresentative Government Author:Colin Powell
“The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I could point to him as a representative. Someone who put my struggle and my worldview into poetry.” SometimesHardDoneRealityFeltLevelsStruggleRepresentativesWorldviewHigh LevelMy StruggleIllmatic Author:Erik Parker
“At the time, Jean-Claude [Juncker] was already an important man in Brussels. I was a young representative in the European Parliament. We talked for a long time and from that point on, our connection became increasingly deep. But our working-class origins are at least as important to our bond.” MenLongImportantYoungClassLong TimeConnectionsRepresentativesWorking ClassParliamentBrussels Author:Martin Schulz
“As the elected representatives of the American people, all the people, nearly 300 million people, that we in the Senate are charged with the responsibility to examine whether to entrust their precious rights and liberties to [Supreme Court] nominee.” PeopleResponsibilityLibertyMillionsRightsCourtSupremeSenateRepresentativesSupreme Court Author:Patrick Leahy
“When it comes to the Supreme Court, the American people have only two times when they have any input into how our Constitution is interpreted and who will have the privilege to do so.First, we elect a president who has the power to nominate justices to the Supreme Court.Second, the people, acting through their representatives in the Senate, have their say on whether the president's nominee should in fact be confirmed.” PeopleShouldFirstsTwoFactsPresidentJusticeActingConstitutionCourtPrivilegeSupremeSenateRepresentativesSupreme CourtInput Author:Mike DeWine
“When it comes to our Constitution, judges perform, certainly, an important role. But the people, acting through their elected representatives, should play an even more important role.” PeopleShouldImportantPlayActingRolesJudgingConstitutionRepresentatives Author:Mike DeWine
“People underestimate the power we have to make real change for animals; it's with our vote. Representatives may not care about animals, but they care about our vote and that is our leverage.” PeopleMayRealCareAnimalVoteRepresentativesUnderestimateReal Change Author:Shane Barbi
“[Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is best informed and, therefore, most dependable within narrow limits.” SaidBodyLimitsJudgmentCourtDemocraticRepresentativesDemocratic SocietyReflexesDependable Author:Sam Brownback
“That's not what I want my children to hear. That's not representative of the country that I want my children to grow up in. And so that actually I found far more upsetting as a mom, as a woman, as an American, and even as my mother's daughter than anything they said about my mom.” WantChildrenSaidCountryMotherFoundGrowsGrowing UpMomDaughterMy MomMy ChildrenUpsetRepresentativesThey Said Author:Chelsea Clinton
“It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.” ImportantCountryStatesHouseLosesBehindsRightsInvolvedGainsOur CountrySeatsRepresentativesWomens RightsLackingLegislatureHouse Of RepresentativesState LegislaturesRedistricting Author:Eleanor Smeal
“If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material. For the most part, they'll simply forge an object that signifies something "real" in the world, even if that something is as abstract as an emotion or an energy. A child, on the other hand, will just as often produce something totally without semiotic meaning, a shape or a mass that represents nothing that exists outside of their imagination. Or else, they'll eat it or throw it or ignore it, wholesale.” IfsWorldChildrenRealHandsEnergyImaginationEmotionObjectsProduceMaterialsShapesMassAdultsAbstractRepresentativesClayLumpsRaw MaterialsWholesaleSomething RealSemiotics Author:Keith Murray
“There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.” ThinkingTwoBookRememberReadingChanceWonderfulConnectionsRepresentativesPersonal LifePsychologistGreat BookErikson Author:Barack Obama
“I don't think anyone is closer to the voters in Washington than members of the House of Representatives.” ThinkingHouseMembersVotersRepresentativesHouse Of Representatives Author:Judy Woodruff
“We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.” AbleSellsCoreRepresentativesRetailDiscountsUndercut Author:Andrea Jung
“Do you think that it is possible to have a dialogue with the representatives of Lugansk and Donetsk if they all are being prosecuted and subject to criminal proceedings? That is exactly why the Minsk Agreements establish to adopt an amnesty law. However, it has not been adopted.” IfsThinkingLawSubjectsCriminalsDialogueAgreementRepresentativesAdoptedProceedingAmnesty Author:Vladimir Putin
“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.” LiteratureTermRepresentatives Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Not everyone supported gaming, but we had a general meeting and a vote on whether to pursue a casino or not and the tribe voted yes, and as a tribal representative to the state legislature, I had to represent that decision.” StatesDecisionVoteMeetingsPursueRepresentativesTribesLegislatureGamingPlaying GamesCasinosState Legislatures Author:Donna M. Loring
“The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives of all nations should dedicate a Temple of Eternal Peace. Only when all peoples of the earth shall go to THIS temple as pilgrims is eternal peace to become a fact.” ShouldFactsEarthNationsEternalJewLeagueTemplesRepresentativesRight PlacePilgrimGenevaGinsbergZionLeague Of NationsEternal Peace Author:Ahad Ha'am
“The Kochs are very much involved in this election, not backing [Donald] Trump but backing everything down the ballot from him. They're pouring money into capturing the Senate and the House of Representatives, and state Houses across the country.” CountryStatesHouseTrumpInvolvedElectionSenateRepresentativesPouringBallotsHouse Of Representatives Author:Jane Mayer
“Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought to be reflexive.” ThinkingGivingIndividualForceDecisionDemocracyOughtAccessRepresentativesGiving InWikileaks Author:Noam Chomsky
“The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.” TodayHousePopulationExecutivesRepresentativesEmperorAdministratorsHouse Of Representatives Author:Noam Chomsky
“In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its parties is representative of the political opinions among the citizens. It is reasonable to claim that the people rule itself through the political institutions.” PeopleCountryPoliticalPartyOpinionCitizensClaimsInstitutionsDemocraticReasonableRepresentativesParliamentIndirectPopulistEuropean CountriesPolitical OpinionsPolitical Institutions Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“In most cases, if you've gotten to this point, you've already received a letter or phone message from your creditor with the name and extension of a representative. If you haven't, you can call the toll-free number on your bill, but keep in mind that the person who answers may not have the power to negotiate a settlement. Ask to speak to someone who is either a supervisor or in the settlement department, if the creditor has one (as many do).” IfsMindMayPersonsAsksNamesSpeakAnswersNumbersCasesHavensMessagesLettersBillsPhonesDepartmentRepresentativesExtensionsSettlementTollsCreditorsSupervisors Author:Jean Chatzky
“In some traditional African dances, people wear masks in order to become the embodiments of particular spirits. I have heard that they often cover the mouth-piece with spider webs or something that resonates, so that their voice gets distorted, ceasing to be the voice of a human and becoming representative of a voice that comes from another world.” PeopleWorldHumansSpiritOrderVoicePiecesHeardParticularBecomingMouthsTraditionalMaskRepresentativesSpidersAnother WorldEmbodimentSpider Web Author:Justin Adams
“I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take up cudgels for this position. To them, it's not necessarily that Dylan doesn't merit the highest honour. It's that he doesn't merit this specific highest honour [Nobel prize], in the way a champion pole vaulter shouldn't be given a medal for the long jump. It is in this group that the Wahey!s are mainly to be found, firing off jests, or mock solemnly reciting Dylan's sillier lyrics as if these are entirely representative of his oeuvre.” IfsKnowsWayLongHappensFoundGivenGroupsFansPositionHighestFairsFolksMeritChampionPrizeHonourBobRepresentativesMedalDylanNobelMockNobel PrizeFiringRecitingLong Jump Author:David Bennun
“The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's that pop music, pop music of any kind, doesn't need the Nobel committee to damn it with the faint praise of such an award to its sole chosen representative.” NeedsKindPraisePopsChosenDamnAwardsBobSoleRepresentativesCommitteesDylanNobelPop Music Author:David Bennun
“How do you, on the one hand, not object to Hillary Clinton being elected, and then, on the other hand, tell people, "Elect me to stop her"? It seems like they're giving themselves a really tough position to occupy here, be they governors, senators, congressional members of the House of Representatives. They want to stop Hillary but not enough to keep her out of the White House. "So she'll get in there, but you need to elect us to put the brakes on her."” PeopleWantNeedsGivingEnoughHandsSeemsHouseWhitePositionObjectsMembersToughClintonWhite HouseGovernorsRepresentativesSenatorsBrakeHouse Of Representatives Author:Rush Limbaugh
“After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but when they made the count in Mississippi, I was told I had 388 votes. So actually it is no telling how many votes I actually got.” MadeSaidCitiesVoteRepresentativesCommitteesMississippiCredentialsAtlantic City Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“Michelle Landr is a fabulous member of Parliament. She is a true representative of that community. She's a classic middle-of-the-road Australian who represents the interests of her community with passion and with a lot of common sense.” PassionInterestCommunityCommonMiddleMembersCommon SenseClassicRepresentativesFabulousParliamentAustralianMiddle Of The RoadMembers Of Parliament Author:George Brandis
“My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.” FirstsArtInfluenceModernDesignParticularPaintingEngagedRepresentativesSculptureAvant GardeIntersections Author:Zaha Hadid
“We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.” IfsKindTwoCountryTurnsPartyFocusInformationMembersConcernGreenCongressOur CountryCorporateAgendasRepresentativesSenatorsTurnaroundHijackingGreen Party Author:Ralph Nader
“We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.” SaidEvilStruggleEconomicIndiaInjusticeBritishRepresentativesColonialismCastesEconomic InjusticeFeudal System Author:Indira Gandhi
“I haven't officially spoken in public about that issue, but I don't think it's a secret that Carlos [López-Cantera] has been a good friend of mine for many years. I respect him. I think he has done a great job as a state representative, as property appraiser in South Florida, and he's doing so now as lieutenant governor of Florida, and I think he would be a great senator, but I don't have an announcement for you today.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensStatesDoneWould BeTodayJobsSecretIssuesHavensMinesPropertySouthGovernorsRepresentativesGood FriendFloridaSenatorsGreat JobAnnouncementsLieutenantsSouth FloridaPez Author:Marco Rubio
“America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.” PeopleIfsThinkingKidsAmericaDemocracyUnderstoodDirectRepublicRepresentativesDirect Democracy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In America, we do not have a democracy. It's not what we have. We have a representative republic and therefore the rules and regulations that have been written to maintain it are not truly democratic - not purely democratic - in origin. They are about protecting and defending the establishment of this republic.” Has BeensAmericaDemocracyWrittenDemocraticRepublicEstablishmentRegulationRepresentativesRules And Regulations Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances on it. It's precisely because this is a representative republic that we have survived.” DoeAmericaDemocracyBalanceMajorityChecksRepublicRepresentativesSurvivedMajority Rule Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.” BigsAmericaDifferencesDemocracyRepublicRepresentativesDemocracy In America Author:Rush Limbaugh