#representative

They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council. ↗

— John Hume

#city #city council #council #divided #eight

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#america #campaign #clearly #congress #democracy

I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#announcing #back #caused #choose #colleagues

The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#anything #become #campaign #campaign contributions #contributions

In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception. ↗

— Justin Sane

#business #celebrate #doing #exception #general

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

— Alexander Hamilton

#govern #here #immediate #people #representatives

I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#american #government #i #israel #know

I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#confronting #discuss #first #germany #government

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. ↗

— Robert Bork

#another #another way #basic #being #democracy

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

— Fidel Castro

#democracy #economy #justice #marxism #representative