“There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.” GovernmentAmericaDemocracyElementsVoteStructureRepublicRepresentativesHere And There Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.” ThinkingGivenMillionsFiveMinutesBillsDollarsClintonRepresentativesFive MinutesMillion DollarsCheques Author:Julian Assange
“Hillary Clinton is the smooth central representation of all that, and 'all that' is more or less what is in power now in the United States. It's what we call the establishment or the DC consensus. One of the more significant Podesta emails that we released was about how the Obama cabinet was formed and how half the Obama cabinet was basically nominated by a representative from Citi Bank. This is quite amazing.” StatesUnitedHalfUnited StatesClintonSignificantEstablishmentRepresentativesRepresentationSmoothEmailConsensusCabinets Author:Julian Assange
“If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign countries, and broaden their own scope, and come back and educate the movements they represented, not only would this have made the groups to which they belonged more enlightened and more worldly in the international sense, but it also would have given the independent African states abroad a better understanding of the groups in the United States, and what they stand for, what they represent.” IfsMadeDifferentCountryStatesAmericaGivenUnderstandingUnitedUnited StatesGroupsMovementIndependentInternationalVariousSelfishEnlightenedEducateRepresentativesWorldlyScopeForeign Countries Author:Malcolm X
“The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a vision and understanding of the very essence of democracy, constitutional government, a representative republic, and the remarkably powerful concept of being endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.” PeopleMenGovernmentCertainUnderstandingPowerfulVisionDemocracyRightsGroupsConceptsIdealsEssenceCreatorRepublicRepresentativesFoundingConstitutional GovernmentUnalienable Rights Author:Paul Kengor
“I was really shocked after all of this talk about coal miners and all of this talk about Buy America, the Republicans and the House of Representatives gutted health care and pension protections for coal miners and removed the Buy America provision that had been put in the bill in a bipartisan basis.” CareAmericaHouseRepublicanBasesBillsProtectionHealth CareRepresentativesShockedCoalProvisionPensionBipartisanMinersHouse Of RepresentativesCoal Miners Author:Claire McCaskill
“I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach.” PeopleThinkingStatesFactsGovernmentSpeakStrongReligiousUnitedUnited StatesCitizensApproachResearchConvictionImpressionCellsBranchesExecutivesRepresentativesStemSurveysState GovernmentStem CellUnited States GovernmentStem Cell ResearchExecutive Branch Author:Richard Dawkins
“There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If you read Benjamin Franklin, who was one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment in the United States and the most distinguished representative of the movement here, he actually advised that the newly founded republic should block Germans and Swedes because they were too "swarthy" - dark.” IfsShouldCountryStatesStrongDarkUnitedUnited StatesFiguresMovementProtectEnlightenmentTraditionBlockRepublicRepresentativesFoundingDistinguishedFranklin Author:Noam Chomsky
“I try to make Play Cloths really representative of me and my designers they look at my evolution as an artist and in fashion and they [zero] in to different details. I come into the office some days and they're like, 'What are those?" [I say,] "[These] are Philip Lim...[I'll] have on Philip Lim sweats and they go and put their spin on it.” TryingLooksDifferentPlayArtistFashionEvolutionOfficeDetailsDesignerZeroSweatRepresentativesPhilip Author:Pusha T
“Because once the black man becomes the political master of his own community, it means that the politicians of that community will also be black, which also means that he then will be sending black representation or representatives not only to represent him at the local level and at the state level, but, but even at the federal level.” MenMeanStatesPoliticalBlackCommunityLevelsMastersPoliticianLocalsRepresentativesRepresentation Author:Malcolm X
“I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just treated me as they would anybody else. They had to deal with me as a representative of the United States of America, and the United States of America was too important to be dismissed or ignored on any grounds.” ThinkingImportantStatesAmericaUnitedDealsNumbersUnited StatesSurpriseTreatedRepresentativesUnited States Of AmericaIgnoredInitialsHead Of State Author:Susan Rice
“Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.” SaidTermIntellectualRepresentativesHonorable Author:Noam Chomsky
“One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents.” PeoplePersonsCharacterJobsCoursesHouseWhiteSeeingTelevisionTvsOfficeCampaignsSymbolsBarackCriticizeWhite HouseRepresentativesPresidencyResponding Author:Barack Obama
“We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values.” ActionValuesDemocracyDirectConstitutionRepresentativesDirect Action Author:Edward Snowden
“The surveillance revelations are critically important because they revealed that our rights are being redefined in secret, by secret courts that were never intended to have that role - without the consent of the public, without even the awareness of the majority of our political representatives.” ImportantPoliticalSecretRolesRightsAwarenessMajorityCourtRevelationsRepresentativesConsentSurveillance Author:Edward Snowden
“One strategy that the tea party smartly embraced was one of being almost entirely defensive. They consciously decided not to figure out which of their really abominable conservative policy priorities to prioritize. Instead, anything that came out of the Obama White House they were against. What they recognized is that when you've lost the White House and the House of Representatives and the Senate, you're not setting the agenda anymore. We progressives find ourselves in a similar situation now.” HouseLostWhitePartySituationFiguresPolicyDecidedStrategyConservativePrioritiesSettingSettingsTeaAgendasWhite HouseSenateRepresentativesTea PartyPrioritizeHouse Of Representatives Author:Ezra G. Levin
“It is really crucial that folks focus on their own representatives. If you call or write a member who does not represent you, I can tell you that contact is going to be a waste of time. You might as well just talk to yourself in your living room.” IfsWritingWellsDoeI CanMightRoomsFocusMembersWasteFolksContactCrucialWasting TimeRepresentativesLiving Room Author:Ezra G. Levin
“We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from anonymous officials who have an ax to grind, not a single US official, not a single representative of the United States government, has ever pointed to a single case of individualized harm caused by these revelations. This, despite the fact that former NSA director Keith Alexander said this would cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation.” YearsSaidStatesFactsGovernmentNationsCausesHoursUnitedCasesUnited StatesRecordsDirectorsCongressHarmGravesDespiteFormerOfficialsRevelationsRepresentativesTestimonyGrindNsaState GovernmentKeithIrrevocableUnited States Government Author:Edward Snowden
“There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.” WayRealGovernmentTodayDangerFunctionAccountabilityRepresentativesRepresentative Government Author:Edward Snowden
“Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama brought into existence, including the thawing of the relationship between the United States and the people of Cuba. And because there is a Republican Senate, a Republican House of Representatives, a Republican president, it is more than likely that his legislative program will be accepted; his nominations to the Supreme Court may very well be accepted.” PeopleIfsWellsMayStatesOrderHousePresidentUnitedExistenceUnited StatesTrumpRepublicanProgramCourtIncludingAcceptedSupremeBarackExecutivesSenateRepresentativesSupreme CourtCubaPresident Barack ObamaNominationsHouse Of RepresentativesExecutive OrdersThawing Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I am not the leader; I am a representative of the leader. The leader is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whom we believe is very much alive, and is directing me from where he is.” BelieveLeaderAliveRepresentativesHonorableMuhammadElijahElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and millions. And I understand that when you used to go around to talk to your very young fans, you would appear as Lemony Snicket's representative or agent.” FirstsBookYoungUsedCoursesMillionsFansStartingSellingAgentsRepresentativesSnicket Author:Daniel Handler
“I don't know why women would think they would be underrepresented in that 40 per cent, and I do not know why they think they would be underrepresented in that 60 per cent either. Because, any community that has their traditional leader in the area, one would expect that, among the people, they would want to ensure that this committee, that 60%, is properly representative.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantWould BeCommunityLeaderAreasTraditionalCentsRepresentativesCommittees Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of life who, in the last half of the 18th century and early 19th century, articulated the rights of colonists, secured independence from Great Britain, and established new constitutional republics at both the national and state levels. This definition includes a cast of thousands who played their patriotic part at the local, state, and/or national levels. Among them were citizen soldiers, elected representatives, polemicists, and patriot preachers.” TwoStatesLastsFatherTermWalksLevelsHalfRightsGenerationsCenturyCitizensIndependenceSoldierCastsDefinitionsLocalsBritainPatrioticRepublicPreacherRepresentativesFoundersPatriotFounding19th CenturyGreat BritainSecuredWalks Of Life18th CenturyColonists Author:Daniel L Dreisbach
“Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for my signature-piece of legislation in the house which was a bill, actually a bill for true civil rights. That there must be no discrimination against anyone on the basis of race in affirmative-action.” WellsActionRememberHouseRacePiecesRightsRepublicanBasesBillsMajorityDemocratDiscriminationCivil RightsRepresentativesLegislationSignaturesLouisianaAffirmative ActionAffirmativeHouse Of Representatives Author:David Duke
“I think [Steve Scalise] is a good man I am not going to vote in that regard because I believe Israel controls the Senate they control the House of Representatives they control the media .” ThinkingMenBelieveHouseI BelieveMediaVoteRegardIsraelGood ManSenateRepresentativesHouse Of Representatives Author:David Duke
“I realize it's about the artists and about the fans. Those are the people who truly have the power. It's like politics, we give away our power to representatives and we give it away to our President. That's what I'm showing with this 2-M-1 movement.” PeopleGivingArtistPresidentRealizingFansMovementRepresentatives Author:David Banner
“I'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately afterwards, but then some of those women who were involved in the movement got involved in representative positions and perhaps some of them got a bit distanced from the grassroots issues. But also the women's movement itself seemed to say, "No, we've got our own government, our own parties in power" and they sat back.” ImportantGovernmentBitsPartyStruggleIssuesMovementPositionInvolvedSatIrelandRepresentativesGrassrootsStruggle For Freedom Author:Mary Robinson
“If people are given a TV-educated idea of what Islam is, I have the opportunity to push back on that and say ISIS does not speak for the Muslim world, and in fact, you have people right here in front of you who are much more representative than homicidal maniacs.” PeopleIfsWorldDoeIdeasFactsOpportunitySpeakGivenFrontsTvsIslamEducatedRepresentativesIsisManiacsMuslim WorldHomicidal Author:Keith Ellison
“In the spring of 1946 [Ho Chi Minh ] signed a provisional agreement with the French representative on a compromise solution to the dispute over Vietnamese independence. Once again, he might have been naive in hoping that a compromise was really possible.” Has BeensMightSpringSolutionsIndependenceCompromiseAgreementRepresentativesNaiveMight Have BeenDisputesVietnamese Author:William J. Duiker
“Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives. [John] Adams actually agreed with that implication and argued that the aristocracy and the people had to have separate houses; this was the only way the power of the aristocracy could be contained.” PeopleWaySaidOrderHouseSocialCreatingCriticsSenateRepresentativesImplicationsAristocracySocial OrderImpliedHouse Of Representatives Author:Gordon S. Wood
“[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive represented the monarchical estate, the senate the aristocratic estate, and the house of representatives the estate of the people.” PeopleHouseSocialConstitutionStructureNotionTraditionalJustifyExecutivesSenateRepresentativesEstatesMassachusettsHouse Of RepresentativesAristocratic Author:Gordon S. Wood
“The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.” GivingFirstsWould BeMovingPoliticalOpportunityMoving ForwardHillsAgendasRepresentativesPolitical PowerCapitolCapitol Hill Author:Barack Obama
“[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.” ShouldMindTwoStatesPresidentActivityCapacityLettersAffairAgentsInternalsAgreementRepresentativesInterfereMaximsFranklinSigningInternal AffairsPresident Roosevelt Author:Joseph Stalin
“Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country.” CountryInterestDirectElectionPopulationSupremeSpotsGuaranteesOrgansRepresentativesBoundless Author:Joseph Stalin
“I think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It's not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government. And that is a threat that here in Europe, they feel acutely. They've seen their countries interfered with, bombarded by cyber-attacks, by Russian propaganda, indeed, by Russian troops.” ThinkingFeelsIdeasWarCountryGovernmentDemocracyCapitalismEuropeThreatCommunismPropagandaTroopsRepresentativesVersusAuthoritarianismConfrontingCyberBombardedRepresentative GovernmentBombarded ByCyber Attacks Author:Adam Schiff
“Being a party chair, you really have a chance to make a difference. but what the Democrats have to do is recognize and accept the fact that they're at their lowest point [in 2017] since 1928 in the United States House of Representatives and their lowest point since 1925 in states.” StatesFactsHouseDifferencesChanceUnitedPartyAcceptingUnited StatesDemocratMaking A DifferenceChairsRepresentativesLowestHouse Of RepresentativesLowest Point Author:Mark Shields
“The Chinese are not stupid people. They're very smart people. They told me very, very distinctly that they cannot believe how stupid our representatives are in the United States. They cannot believe that they can continue to take all our jobs - you know, through the manipulation of the currency, of their currency, they make it almost impossible for our great companies to compete.” PeopleKnowsBelieveStatesJobsUnitedCompanyUnited StatesImpossibleStupidSmartChineseManipulationRepresentativesCurrencyStupid PeopleSmart PeopleVery SmartNot StupidGreat Company Author:Donald Trump
“It's very easy for me to begin to believe the publicity about myself, whether for or against. It can give you an absurd idea of yourself. I know that there's a fine balance between accepting your own power with grace and misusing it. And I don't ever want to portray myself as a representative of the voiceless. I'm scared of that.” KnowsWantGivingBelieveIdeasEasyAcceptingGraceFineBalanceScaredAbsurdRepresentativesPublicityVoiceless Author:Arundhati Roy
“Israel is the representative of the United States in the Middle East. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language. If you read Sharon's statements and George W. Bush's statements, they're virtually identical.” IfsStatesUseLanguageUnitedUnited StatesMiddlePolicyIsraelEastStatementsMiddle EastRepresentativesIdenticalIntegratedSharon Author:John Pilger
“Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.” DifferentChoicesBrainDemocracyBuiltExpertsRepresentativesMultipleOverlappingDifferent Choices Author:David Eagleman
“[The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is essentially sending the government into shutdown and maybe default. But they won the majority of seats there because of various kinds of chicanery. They got a minority of the votes, but a majority of the seats, and they're using them to press forward an agenda which is extremely harmful to the public.” KindGovernmentRunningHousePartyExampleRepublicanVoteMajorityPressesVariousSeatsMinoritiesAgendasRepresentativesRepublican PartyDefaultHouse Of RepresentativesChicanery Author:Noam Chomsky
“As I've matured, the roles are a bit more layered and representative of where I am today as an older person with more responsibilities, perspective and hopefully not too many regrets.” PersonsTodayBitsResponsibilityRolesRegretPerspectiveHopefullyRepresentativesMaturedHopefully Not Author:Barbara Crampton
“Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of Lords in England, that still represent the English feudal nobility in terms of positions above regional representatives, who are in the end the representatives supposedly elected by the population. Many mechanisms exist, but they are mechanisms to preserve the power of the wealthy classes, of the bourgeois classes that hold the power and rights above the rest of the society.” StillsEndsHouseTermLordClassRightsPositionEnglandDemocraticPopulationSuperiorsPreservesWealthyMechanismRepresentativesSpainNobilityChamberMonarchyBourgeoisBelgiumConstitutional MonarchyHouse Of Lords Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?” IfsKnowsWayDoeStatesProcessPresidentUnitedMillionsUnited StatesKnow HowDemocracyAmountCostDollarsDemocraticBillionsCampaignsPresidentialDo You KnowRepresentativesSenatorsMillion DollarsPresidential Campaign Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“When we talk about Cuban democracy we are referring to participatory democracy which is big difference with representative bourgeois democracy. Our is a democracy in which everything is consulted with the people; it is a democracy in which every aspect and important decision that has an impact in the life and society of the people, is done in consultation.” PeopleImportantDoneBigsDifferencesDecisionDemocracyAspectImpactRepresentativesBourgeoisReferringCubanImportant DecisionsConsultationParticipatory Democracy Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was the leader of our revolution and who had the most outstanding role in the direction of the revolutionary struggle and directs the strategy of the Cuban government.” GovernmentWould BeLeaderRolesStruggleRevolutionStrategyRevolutionaryRepresentativesOutstandingCubanCastroHemisphereGuerrillas Author:Che Guevara
“A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.” DemocracyPressesRepresentativesImmuneImmune SystemFree Press Author:Al Gore
“I'm willing to be representative. I'm just an actor. I'm just playing a role, so even if it is a person I do not like, I would do that.” IfsPersonsActorsRolesWillingRepresentatives Author:Michael Keaton
“Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?” ThinkingKindTwoHandsTogetherViewsHistoryShakesContradictionRepresentativesDaydreamingOpposingGet TogetherOpposing Views Author:Nikita Khrushchev