#representative

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

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

It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others. ↗

— Naomi Judd

#decade #disability #entertainer #ever #feel

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#constitution #exclusively #force #gives #only

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

— Kenneth Lay

#our #representative #someone #strong #system

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

— Eric Lindros

#best interests #great #had #happened #i

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#class #defies #make #mind #out

I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#children #concerned #house #i #liberal

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#any #choosing #finished #franchise #own

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#could #existed #friends #get #i