#representatives

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#home #house #life #my life #representatives

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#grandfather #house #institute #lawyer #massachusetts

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

#approached #believed #blend #closely #completely

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#becomes #between #change #clear #country

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

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

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

There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#culture #democracy #democratic #elect #human

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences. ↗

— Rafer Johnson

#anyone #city #conferences #fitness #give

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arab #department #distracted #fixed #followers