Representative Quotes

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.

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.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.

It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.

We need someone who is a strong representative of our value system.

I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.