Top 647 Representative Quotes & Sayings

My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.

I should be a representative for AARP!

The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future. Traditional representative democracy within nations is no longer enough. People want more participation and collaboration with their government.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.

A benefactor is a representative of God.

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

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

I like the idea that the body is a vessel, that it's not necessarily representative of the real you that's inside of it.

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

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most Americans would be surprised to learn just how much better we are at gov't than our gov't.

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?

First and foremost, the duty of a representative is to represent the interests of his constituents.

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free to believe what they wanted. They could be free to work as hard as they wanted, knowing that their labor would accrue to them and to their family, that there wouldn't be a lot of people impinging upon their freedom and telling them what they had to do, and that it would be a nation that was representative of the people, and that it would have a government that was representative of the people rather than one that tried to rule the people.

I'm a representative of what you can become if you work hard and you focus on your education.

I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

What I always emphasize is that I am a representative who happens to be Somali.

When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.

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.

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 American experiment with representative democracy has been a great success, but we need to realize that it needs to be a genuine representative democracy where ordinary people have a vote, have a voice in choosing the candidates who represent them.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

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

I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

When I pick a story, I'm very much aware of the larger issues that it's illuminating. But one of the things that I, as a writer, feel strongly about is that nobody is representative. That's just narrative nonsense. People may be part of a larger story or structure or institution, but they're still people. Making them representative loses sight of that. Which is why a lot of writing about low-income people makes them into saints, perfect in their suffering.

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

Governments are not representative.

I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.

To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

I am not a representative of anything. I have my opinions.

Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.

Help! The customer service representative doesn't understand my problem.

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

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

I don't think what you hear on talk radio is representative of America.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

The truth, the real history, is way more interesting and representative of what America actually is.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

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.

We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.

If a voter initiative can deny gay people access to traditional representative, democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of representative.

A natural adversary is a customer service representative.

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

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

Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

Most people are generally satisfied with their representative.

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

A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.

I am not a Somali representative. I am not a Muslim representative. I am not a millennial representative. I am not a woman representative. I am a representative who happens to have all of these marginalized identities and can understand the intersectionality of all of them in a very unique way.

Spiritual master is representative of God. Similarly, king is also representative of God. The father is also representative of God. These are the statements of the sastras. Because they will guide. The king will guide. The spiritual master will guide. The father will guide. What is that guidance? That guidance is how one can become Krishna Conscious by education, by culture.

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.