Top 508 Representatives Quotes & Sayings

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet.

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.

It is our job, our responsibility as their representatives to help them. If we choose not to do that, we should not be their representatives.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

MPs are paid to be representatives of their constituents. They have to do that job.

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

My position has always been that the House of Representatives does not take reservations. It's walk-in only.

I don't think anyone is closer to the voters in Washington than members of the House of Representatives.

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

The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.

Of course, it is always nice to poll well, but if you don't get representatives elected, then what is the point?

It is our duty as representatives in Congress to do the most for everyone we represent, beginning with those who have the least.

The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.

You have 435 people in the United States House of Representatives trying to get along.

There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

I am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

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.

We don't think of ourselves in Cafe Tacvba as representatives. When we go and make new material, we feel that our creations are more authentic if we think of ourselves. We don't say, "Let's be the representatives and show the moment that our society is in." But when it comes to performing and we visit other countries, like New York, many people approach us, people who are outside of their own country, and we become a referent. Our shows become this sort of ritual, and our performances become that moment of identity.

One could imagine a day when empowered and experienced representatives of liberated areas will sit with the regime's representatives and work to negotiate to reunify a more democratic Syria.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

I shouldn't be the only African American Republican in the House of Representatives.

We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.

We need senators who have studied physics and representatives who understand ecology.

The representatives of people become uncrowned kings and queens once they get into Parliament.

When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.

Most people want their representatives to get something done.

As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts.

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.

The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.

I love serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, and I have especially enjoyed my time on the Ways and Means Committee.

I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the offer either.

There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing.

I really feel incredibly fortunate to not be stereotyped. And it's something that I and my representatives are very keen on preserving.

The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.

Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

The sheer scale at which one is able to create change as elected representatives is unmatched.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

As elected representatives, MLAs are accountable to the people and I will not allow anyone to undermine their importance.

It's important to seize any opportunity one has to speak to their elected representatives, no matter the situation.

People approach politicians with lot of hopes, particularly if they are elected representatives.

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

In the Constitution, there is no idea of a political party. It is representatives of every constituency because it is so vibrant and varied.

People elect their representatives from the Gram Panchayat to Parliament. They vest their will and hopes in these representatives. In turn, the people's representatives devote their lives to the service of nation.

We don't want Washington Democrats running the House of Representatives.

The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

I was on the elections committee in my last session in the state House of Representatives.

One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution.