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I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.
Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
Of course, it is always nice to poll well, but if you don't get representatives elected, then what is the point?
All our elected representatives - and our government - have a responsibility to keep their people safe and well.
It's important to seize any opportunity one has to speak to their elected representatives, no matter the situation.
Senators, representatives too often, we hear from our base, don't talk to the other side, don't with work with them.
I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.
If our elected representatives want to further increase the gas tax, they should have to take a vote each time they do.
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
Our elected representatives wisely enacted laws to protect our state and local governments from undue outside influence.
We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.
I love serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, and I have especially enjoyed my time on the Ways and Means Committee.
My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.
I'm honored to have served for 18 years as Arizona's 10th Senator - and for four terms in the House of Representatives before that.
The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.
We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.
Charter Cities has been approached in many different ways, by many people acting as individuals or as representatives of organizations.
The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.
I really feel incredibly fortunate to not be stereotyped. And it's something that I and my representatives are very keen on preserving.
It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.
The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.
I encourage the residents of Houston County to let their elected representatives know that closing the Dothan Trooper Post is unacceptable.
In the Constitution, there is no idea of a political party. It is representatives of every constituency because it is so vibrant and varied.
The people of South Jersey, and local, state, and federal Representatives will not allow a permanent closure of the Atlantic City Rail Line.
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.
I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.
If neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump nor I are able to win 270 in the electoral college... then it will go the House of Representatives.
As representatives, we are accountable first not to our party, not to our leadership, not to the chief executive, but just to our constituents.
The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.
Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
I believe it lies in the interests of Poland that our representatives are in the most prestigious positions, both in the European and global arena.
When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
The House of Representatives provides a special, nonpartisan staff of lawyers, called Legislative Counsel, who are experts in various areas of the law.
I always told my representatives, 'Look, I come from the 'School of Janet' - that's my mom - she raised me to know that I'm more than just set dressing.
If you attack our democratically elected representatives, you attack our institutions, all our people and our sovereignty, and we will never allow that.
I will continue to do all I can to work together with my fellow Representatives for the betterment of the American people and the people of South Jersey.
Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
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
It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.
Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.
It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.