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I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Andrew Jackson
Politics
Day
Rights
Corruption
People
Liberty
Promises
Country
Experiment
Members
Has-Been
See
Weep
House
House Of Representatives
Been
Office
Representatives
Imputed
Successful
Many
Early
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Vladimir Lenin
Government
Class
Few
Every
Once
Parliament
Allowed
Particular
Years
Oppressed
Represent
Representatives
Repress
Decide
Which
Them
God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.
James Dobson
Work
God
World
Election
Nation
Our
Our World
Select
His
Represent
Candidates
Representatives
Us
Your
Views
Who
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Politics
People
Admire
See
More
Dogs
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.
Carl Sagan
Atoms
Example
Evolution
Cosmic
Cosmos
Given
Hydrogen
Years
Representatives
Billion
Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
Nikita Khrushchev
You
Together
Will
Opposing
Holding
Think
Our
Melt
Systems
Kind
Shake
Simply
Between
Daydream
Diametrically
Contradictions
Get
Hands
Get Together
Representatives
Views
Away
Two
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams
You
Fate
Mind
Own
Our
Ruin
Give
My Own
House
House Of Representatives
Accepted
May
Representatives
Children
Warning
Your
Thereby
Prepare
Seat
Consented
A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.
Bella Abzug
Woman
House
House Of Representatives
Representatives
Place
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Government
Women
Ought
Direct
Allowed
Share
Instead
Without
Governed
Any
Representatives
Being
Them
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Hope
Power Corrupts
Corrupts
Power
Become
Stations
Some
True
Opposite
Ballot
Wallet
Often
Representatives
Polling
Unfortunately
Turn
Elected
Turns
Actions
We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level.
Billy Eichner
Day
Political
Single
Every
Our
Consistently
Stay
Both
Remain
Single Day
Loud
Political Process
Micro
Representatives
Process
Engaged
Vigilant
Level
Every Single Day
Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
P. J. O'Rourke
Government
Law
Conspiracy
Fears
Our
Out
Would
Finding
About
Something
Could
Put
Representatives
Elected
Theories
Many
I won't criticise anyone else's statements, and the public will make up their own minds. And if the public think that any side or any individual has strayed too far away from what's expected of public representatives, then they'll make that judgement.
Michael Gove
Will
Own
Think
Too
Else
Side
Minds
Statements
Criticise
Individual
Make
Judgement
Make Up
Up
Expected
Any
Representatives
Anyone
Public
Far
Far Away
Then
Away
Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.
Millard Fillmore
You
People
Power
States
Wisely
Devolved
Legislative
Representatives
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul
Obligations
People
World
Liberty
Our
Our People
Moral
Constitutional
Economic
No-Win
Protect
Representatives
Bankruptcy
While
Turmoil
Wars
Washington
Bringing
It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.
Theresa May
Democracy
People
Country
Laws
Make
Judges
Govern
Essential
Representatives
Elected
Before holding elective office - 12 years in the Wyoming House of Representatives and 18 years in the U.S. Senate - I served a different type of time. I was on probation for a federal offense committed as a teenager.
Alan K. Simpson
Time
Before
Holding
Type
Teenager
Federal
House
House Of Representatives
Years
Offense
Office
Senate
Committed
Probation
Representatives
Different
Elective
Different Type
Served
We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.
Alberto Juantorena
Our
Way
Athletes
Athletics
Follow
Finish
Involved
Am
Managers
Representatives
Use
Why
Deeply
Start
Careers
I work with the people in the piazza, where there is reality. Here in Parliament, often there is a mystification of reality. They are not representatives of the people. They represent themselves and their own interests.
Alessandra Mussolini
Work
Reality
People
Own
Parliament
Represent
Often
Representatives
Where
Themselves
Interests
Here
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.
Andrea Jung
Buy
Business
Will
Our
Able
More
Retail
Prices
Never
Undercut
Also
Always
Sell
Offered
Representative
Representatives
Which
Core
The representatives of young professionals and woman entrepreneurs deserve seats at the big table to evolve viable, efficient, and sustainable solutions for problems the world is faced with. Without their participation, there will always be a deficit of compassion and innovation.
Arancha Gonzalez
Woman
Innovation
World
Problems
Compassion
Will
Big
Young
Deficit
Evolve
Solutions
Table
Faced
Entrepreneurs
Participation
Without
Always
Efficient
Viable
Representatives
Sustainable
Professionals
Deserve
Seats
On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Britain and the United States, in order to discuss saving the Jews of Europe. In fact, the participants did everything in their power to avoid dealing with the problem.
Ariel Sharon
Problem
Power
Jews
Saving
Everything
States
April
Fact
Participants
Participation
Dealing
Discuss
Conference
Did
Representatives
In Fact
Order
Avoid
Europe
United
United States
Britain
Gathered
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
Asa Gray
Plants
Animals
Other
Though
Higher
Simpler
Blend
Always
Understood
Were
Very
Contrasted
Closely
Representatives
Forms
Lower
Plants And Animals
Each
Believed
It is unacceptable that a senator or a representative in the American House of Representatives assist Afghanistan during the war and meet with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda leaders, express his support for their war against the U.S., and be allowed to return to serve in Congress.
Avigdor Lieberman
War
Congress
Meet
Unacceptable
Allowed
Leaders
Support
House
House Of Representatives
Return
His
American
Senator
Afghanistan
Representative
Representatives
Against
Express
Bin
Al-Qaeda
Serve
Assist
Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall.
Ben Shapiro
Daily
Met
Few
Meet
Local
Photographs
See
More
Alley
Town
Town Hall
Likely
Bowling
Bowling Alley
Hall
Than
American
Representatives
Store
Grill
Them
Grocery
Grocery Store
Washington
Ever
If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress.
Bill Johnson
Result
Made
Congress
Spending
Those
Administration
Purchases
Previous
Had
New
House
House Of Representatives
Make
Because
Still
Coming
Been
Ceiling
Debt
Debt Ceiling
Hit
Commitments
Representatives
Decided
January
Bills
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