Top 25 Representatives Quotes

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

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

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Government, Freedom Of The Press, Representatives

Here sir, the people govern.

Alexander Hamilton

People, Representatives

Alexander Hamilton, Morton J. Frisch (1985). “Selected writings and speeches of Alexander Hamilton”, Aei Pr

I can't go out on stage and have glow sticks waved at me! That's not representative of anything!

Keith Flint

Sticks, Stage, Representatives

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

Thomas Paine

Rights, Voting, Representatives

Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.724, e-artnow

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.

Charles Hodge

People, Ruling, Representatives

Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.16

An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

William Golding

Conscious, Treated, Representatives

Governments are not representative.

Noam Chomsky

Government, Representatives

"NSA surveillance is an attack on American citizens, says Noam Chomsky" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2013.

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

Nate Silver

Snapshots, Sample, Representatives

"Hit political blogger Nate Silver on future of predictive modeling". Interview with David K. Randall, www.reuters.com. November 9, 2012.

Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor

James Madison

Rich, Poor, Representatives

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.263

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Franz Kafka

Literature, Term, Representatives

Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

Dinah Shore

Achievement, Wonderful, Representatives

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

Al Gore

Democracy, Immune System, Representatives

"In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "Morning Edition" with Audie Cornish, wksu.org. March 14, 2017.

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

Yvette Clarke

Want, Representatives, Values

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

Wyndham Lewis

Laughter, Tragedy, Representatives

"Inferior Religions" (1917), cited from "Modernism: An Anthology" edited by Lawrence Raine, Oxford: Blackwell, (p. 208-209), 2005.

I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak.

Stephen Baldwin

Messengers, Speak, Representatives

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

Lawrence Lessig

Long, Hostage, Representatives